member books
For complete descriptions of these member books, visit
www.moaa.org/memberbooks.
FICTION
Bix & Bones: A Story of a Different WWII. By Maj. Mark Druck, USAFR (Ret). Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4691-8889-8.
Lies on the Potomac: In the Shadow of the Triangle. By Lt. Col. Michael L. Perry, USAF (Ret), Life Member. Amazon Digital Services Inc. ASIN B00E6XM3RK.
Seen and Unseen Companions on My Appalachian Journey. By Maj. Paul Fitz-Patrick, USAF (Ret), Life Member, Cumberland Valley (Pa.) Chapter. Wasteland Press. ISBN 978-1-60047-884-0.
NONFICTION
The Boys of Benning: Stories From the Lives of Fourteen Infantry OCS Class 2-62 Graduates. Edited by Dan Telfair, Zia Telfair, and Col. Thomas B. Vaughn, USA (Ret), Life Member. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4817-1710-6.
Drafted and Served: Edward “Skip” Swain — One Citizen Soldier’s Experiences in Vietnam. By Cmdr. Stephen A. Banks, USN (Ret). ISBN 978-0-9817-4733-0.
Hypnotism’s Strangest Phenomena: The Bizarre, the Odd, and the Unusual. By Lt. Col. Norbert W. Bakas, USAF (Ret), Ph.D., Life Member. Bakas Hypnosis Center. ISBN 978-1-4609-3418-0.
Parent Power: The Key to America’s Prosperity. By former Navy 1st Lt. Jack Westman, M.D., Life Member, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Area Chapter. CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1482381962.
Thunder Over Dakota: The Complete History of Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. By Lt. Col. George A. Larson, USAF (Ret), Black Hills (S.D.) Chapter. Schiffer Books. ISBN 978-0-7643-4263-9.
Up! The Difference Between Today and Tomorrow Is You. By former Navy 1st Lt. Bob Ravener. Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas. ISBN 978-1938499708.
MEMOIR
A Flight Through Life: An Aviator’s Memoir. By Col. Albert J. DeGroote, USAF (Ret), Life Member, Willow Grove (Pa.) Chapter.
Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-3009-2247-6.
From There to Here. By former Army 1st Lt. Robert M. Rock, Life Member. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-15666-5.
For submission information, see page 6.
faces of moaa
Kudos
Do you know a MOAA member who is making an impact? To nominate a candidate for “Faces of MOAA,” see the MOAA Directory, page 6.
They come to MOAA with various interests and experiences, and together they make the association strong. Read on to learn more about your fellow MOAA members.
Maj. Gen. Chris Adams Jr., USAF (Ret) (Life Member since 1983): Adams logged 8,000 flying hours and served two tours in Vietnam. He also served as chief of staff, Strategic Air Command, and as an associate director, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He later joined Andrew Corp. as vice president, Government Systems. In 2011, the Daughters of the American Revolution presented him with its National Medal of Honor. He helped found MOAA’s Greater Granbury (Texas) Chapter.
Maj. Cal Posner, USA (Ret) (Life Member since 1990): Posner served in enlisted status, reaching the grade of E-7, before being commissioned in 1979. In May 2013, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal appointed Posner a lieutenant colonel, aide-de-camp, Governor’s Staff. In October 2013, Posner was elected president of Georgia MOAA Inc. He is a past president of MOAA’s Atlanta Chapter and the Georgia Federal/Military Retiree Coalition. He now works as an associate professor at Central Michigan University’s Global Campus in Atlanta.
Maj. Dieter H.B. Protsch, USA (Ret): Protsch retired from the military in 1976. Since 2005, he has handed out several thousand prepaid phone cards to patients at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and at Ramstein air base to traveling servicemembers. He solicits donations from local businesses and has raised funds through the sale of his book, Be All You Can Be: From a Hitler Youth in WWII to a U.S. Army Green Beret (Trafford, 2004).
Capt. Bob Silah, USN (Ret) (Life Member since 1999): After a 27-year Navy career, Silah founded Operation Helping Hand in 2004. Through the program, which MOAA’s Tampa Chapter runs, Silah has helped more than 1,000 seriously injured servicemembers being treated at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital. On Nov. 12, 2013, Florida Gov. Rick Scott inducted Silah into the Florida Veterans’ Hall of Fame. Silah serves on MOAA’s board of directors and on its Membership Committee.
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