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Melquiades "Mike" Ortiz
The author was born and raised in Texas, graduating from Roy Miller High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. The author joined the marine corps on May 28, 1962, the same day he graduated from high sch...view moreThe author was born and raised in Texas, graduating from Roy Miller High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. The author joined the marine corps on May 28, 1962, the same day he graduated from high school.
After his tour of duty with C-1-7 of the Third Marine Division in Chu Lai, Vietnam (1965–1966), the author learned the cost and the importance of the liberties and freedoms that are enjoyed in this country. After four years and an additional four-month extension as a United States Marine, he received an honorable discharge on September 27, 1966.
These poems and thoughts are the author’s way of reaching out and sharing his pain and suffering with other veterans in hopes that, by baring his darkest thoughts and moments, he can reach out to them and let them see that, by putting their thoughts on paper, these thoughts can be lessened and controlled.
The author, a volunteer peer support specialist, cofacilitates a writing group at the Loma Linda Healthcare System (veterans’ hospital) in Loma Linda, California, where he uses his books as a means to reach out to other members of the writing group and to other veterans to show that this is a great way to cope and adjust to pain and suffering, such as the symptoms of PTSD.
AuthorHouse Publishers have published two other books titled Nightmares and Thoughts of a Vietnam Vet and Words of Gold . . . Deep from My Soul, Thoughts of Rain . . . Words of Pain, which the author wrote to help veterans and other individuals find peace and healing from their symptoms of PTSD due to traumatic events.
The International Library of Poetry has published one of the author’s poems, “Young Men of Liberty,” in a book titled Twilight Musings.view less