Alan R. Smith spent 37 years as a Marine serving on both Active and Reserve duty. He has traveled extensively throughout the world studying people and their cultures. His passion i...view moreAlan R. Smith spent 37 years as a Marine serving on both Active and Reserve duty. He has traveled extensively throughout the world studying people and their cultures. His passion is bringing stories to students from elementary school to the university level. He has found all his students and friends love stories of where they “have not been” and once they find history as a story, not facts to be memorized, they want more of history’s “characters.” His goal is for his readers to wrap themselves with the clothes of the story, inserting themselves in the past.view less