It’s been a busy summer. This Saturday, July 28th, I will be doing a reading at the Beltrami County Historical Center in Bemidji at 1:00 pm. Muddy Jungle Rivers continues to receive positive feedback. Last week I was at the post office and a stranger walked up, shook my hand and thanked me for writing …
Bemidji Library Book Festival
June 11-16 is Bemidji Library Book Festival—a busy week. For the full schedule go to: http://krls.org/docs/krls_docs_bj_poster_Book_Festival_201204.pdf Here is a list of events I plan to participate in: Monday evening I’m going to read in my first poetry slam. Tuesday I will attend Laurie Hertzel’s Writers Workshop titled “Writing Your Life, Finding Your Story.” Wednesday I’ll attend Margi …
Navy Department Library
Here is an excerpt from a message I received this past week: Dear Mr. Affield, [Muddy Jungle Rivers] looks very appropriate for our collection so I’m sending it back to our cataloging section. It will eventually be cataloged and thus appear in our online catalog (see the search button link to our online catalog at …
Voices From The Past
Email I recieved from Larry Reid on May 3, 2012 in response to Muddy Jungle Rivers: You don’t know how much your book meant to me Wendell! I don’t remember everything that happened that day. At Spec 4 (E-4) I was the ranking man with the most time in combat left in 3rd platoon, Co. …
Muddy Jungle Rivers Published
Muddy Jungle Rivers is available in the Bemidji area at Luekens Village Foods North, Luekens Village Foods South, Book World, Kat’s Book Nook, and TJ Design Studio. Beginning May 1, 2012, Muddy Jungle Rivers is available for sale on Kindle or in Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.
Publishing Muddy Jungle Rivers
Muddy Jungle Rivers, my Vietnam memoir, is at the publisher. I expect to receive the first print proofs for review the first week of March. TJ Design Studio, Bemidji, Minnesota has developed the electronic book formats for submission to Kindle, Nook, and Apple iStore, which will be ported by the end of March. Reach TJ …
Remembering Vietnam
Muddy Jungle Rivers, a Vietnam War memoir, thrusts the reader into life in the Brown Water Navy onboard an armor troop carrier with the Mobile Riverine Force. Like Karl Marlantes, author of the novel Matterhorn, and the nonfiction What It Is Like To Go To War, I lived with this story for over thirty years …
Background
Eight years now I’ve been retired. For thirty years, while working, stories from my youth haunted me—everybody who’s been to war has stories, I’ve listened to thousands from the old men who fought in the Good War—and I came to realize that I had to tell mine before I joined those old men. Dawn walks …
After the Funeral
This past spring the “Healing Wall” came to Bemidji, Minnesota. While it was here some friends and I went to see it, then went to breakfast. Mike said he wished it hadn’t come—it opened old wounds. Jim and Lyle agreed and we talked about who it was healing. I was surprised at their sentiments—I felt …