Tank Gunner
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Tank Gunner

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At 86, he is an almost famous author. With his journey from battlefield to bookshelf, he encourages and inspires teens to seniors to write their stories. TANK GUNNER is the pen name of a retired combat cavalry trooper, Senior Parachutist, and Jumpmaster awarded a Combat Infantry Badge and decorated with a Silver Star, three Bronze Stars – one for Valor – and a Purple Heart. He served his nation with pride and honor for more than a quarter-century as an enlisted soldier and officer. An award-winning author and speaker, Tank wrote and published: PROPMTS a collection of stories (60 short stories from creative writing prompts - including two international short story contest award-winners), at age 76 PROMPTS TOO another collection of stories (57 short stories from creative writing prompts - including two international short story contest award-winners), at 77 COOKIE JOHNSON, an historical fiction novel of love and war about a soldier who paid a recruiter ten dollars to be a cook in the Army and ended up in Vietnam as an infantry rifleman, at 78 PALOMINO, Tank’s immensely popular WWII historical fiction novel about three German POWs living and working in a small rural Texas town during the summer of 1943, at 79 PORKY BAYCANN, a young adult, adolescent friendship, and WWII historical fiction novel about a 14-year-old boy coming-of-age in Palomino, in the summer of 1943, at 80 THE REDEEMER, a powerful drama of love, conflict, and redemption about exonerated murderer Doctor Pearly Gates coming to work in the Palomino hospital on the eve of WWII, at 81 REVEREND RIPPLES' BUILDING FUND, an historical fiction story of thief, ex-con, and pretend preacher Bobby Ripples coming to Marshall, Texas for a fresh start, at 82 RIGORS of REVENGE, the tale of Colonel Grady Allen, a retired soldier with PTSD, harboring revenge for 50 years, returning to Vietnam to find and kill NVA Captain Vo, who murdered Sergeant Tommy Franklin, at 83 LUCINDA JONES, the story of a spunky redhead on her way to college to finish her journalism degree coming to work for two weeks in the Palomino Press at the onset of the Korean War, in June 1950, where she uncovers secrets, challenges stubbornness, defies injustice, wins trust, finds her strengths, suffers weaknesses, and delights in the excitement and serenity of true love, and is faced with the decision to go off to college or stay in Palomino for love. PALOMINO DÉNOUEMENT, set in 1968, is the story of Captain Grady Allen, fresh from his first Vietnam combat assignment, coming home to Palomino as burial escort and agrees to an interview by Lucinda Jones in Miss Bobbie Jo's Dairy Queen. There, in the Dairy Queen, he learns the fate of many memorable characters who lived, loved, left, or died in this final chapter of Palomino, and faces the reality of strong opposition to the war, to which he is about to return for a second combat assignment, at age 85. Palomino Dénouement is Tank's fifth novel, connected with The Redeemer, Palomino, Porky Baycann, and Lucinda Jones, with characters in his town of Palomino. As an award-winning speaker and award-winning author, he can tell war stories, real stories, true stories, and sometimes sneak in stretches of the truth. Tank’s WAR STORIES of an ARMED SAVAGE blog has 200 non-fiction stories with 350 photos, graphics, and images. He does a PowerPoint show and book signings at senior living communities, book clubs, Veterans' groups, associations, and schools, and he has done hundreds of book signings at 16 book stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro-plex. On Podcasts, Tank brings entertainment and discussion about his writing, and encourages others to write their stories. He is comfortable with sticky questions and opposite points of view. He and his wife have been married 64 years and they live with Cody, 100 miles southwest of Palomino. Search - TANK GUNNER’S BLOG and BOOKSHELF Search - WAR STORIES of an ARMED SAVAGE SUCCESSFUL MINDS PODCAST - Tank Gunner From Battlefield to Bookshelf HOMETOWN HEROES PODCAST - Tank Gunner War Stories
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