Almost twenty years ago when I retired I knew I had stories to tell. I began studying the writing craft at Bemidji State University. Muddy Jungle Rivers, A Vietnam War Memoir, was published in 2012. Since then I have spoken at dozens of book signings and other events. The most humbling experience is to listen …
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Tuesday September 25, 2018, at 10:00AM I will speak at Adventures In LifeLong Learning–see the attached schedule for more information–Beltrami Electric meeting room.
Read MoreWorld War I Student Essay Program
My grandparents, 1915, my grandmother, a Vassar College Student, and my grandfather in his Williams College ROTC uniform. This past Veterans Day I was invited to speak at an area school. I could not because of a schedule conflict. Bemidji School Superintendent Tim Lutz and I started visiting about Veterans Day 2018, the 100th anniversary …
Read MoreShips’ Deck Logs, Vietnam Waters Movements 1966-1973
A friend recently asked me to help him retrieve deck log information from the USS Rogers DD876. Ron and I did a West Pac (West Pacific) deployment to Vietnam together in 1966. He is searching for proof in a claim with the VA. Below is a lengthy but very detailed message I received from a …
Read MoreWriting Your War/Veterans Writer Group
Today is a sad day for our family–the 3rd anniversary of our son’s death. About a year ago one of our local VA Clinic doctors asked me if I would be interested in facilitating a military veteran writer group. This past month I asked the group if it would be okay to post the discussion …
Read MoreNEW RELEASE: CHICKENHOUSE CHRONICLES, BOOK II, “PAWNS”
A few years before my mother died I began interviewing her and making notes. After her death in January 2010 I discovered a treasure trove; 200 years of our family history locked in the chickenhouse—about seventy feet from where we had visited in the old farmhouse. Over the next eight years I studied and catalogued …
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Praise for “Pawns”
Wow is all I can say. Good read!!! The details and the way it flows keeps you not wanting to put it down. Highly recommended for any one looking to really look into someone’s life. ~Daniel T.
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Pawns (Chickenhouse Chronicles Book II)
Picking up after Herman, Book 2 chronicles life on the farm once Barbara moves to Minnesota to marry a man she knows only from letters. Between her mental illness and his PTSD, the match is less than happily-ever-after. The book resurrects a decade of abuse, poverty and family dysfunction on an isolated farm in northern Minnesota.
Read More2018 Events
Wendell Affield featured at Senior Center Veteran’s Day program“Researching the Past” by Adventures in Lifelong LearningBook Launch for “Pawns: The Farm, Nebish, Minnesota 1950s” at Watermark Art Center
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