Trusting Appearances: Things Are Not Always as They Seem
By Ned B. Ricks
()
About this ebook
Ross A. Rainwater, Lieutenant Colonel, Aviation, US Army (Ret)
"Mrs. Blanchard," he started patiently, "I am an officer in the US Army Reserves, and it's actually called Annual Training, not 'summer camp' like the Boy Scouts."
"You told me that you were in the 'real Army', weren't you?"
"Yes, Mrs. Blanchard, I was. But that was a long time ago."
"And were you in the war, the Vietnam War?"
"Uh huh. I went to Vietnam, ... twice."
She gestured at her own cheek mildly with the tips of her pale trembling fingers "Wasn't that were you got the ... uh, oh my..." her resolve ran out.
Frank absently touched his face. He was able to put his fingers right on the line without looking. "The scar?" She nodded, apparently embarrassed now.
"No, Mrs. Blanchard, that was after."
Ned B. Ricks
Ned B. Ricks was commission into the US Army from college. His military service included duty in Germany, Panama and Vietnam. In 1993, he retired from the military with 25 years commissioned service. His personal photos of the Vietnam War are included in the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago.
Related to Trusting Appearances
Related ebooks
Dead Aim Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Terror and Revenge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJohn Dies at the End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Collected Fiction: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and Werewolves in Their Youth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVanished in the Night Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Smasher: A Silicon Valley Thriller Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Path of Silence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great New American Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Stained White Radiance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fledgling TCPI 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Peregrine Spy: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSilent As The Grave Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Naples Nocturne Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiami Twilight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bag of Bones: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fatal Command Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cross Cut Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eighth Circle Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Meet Collins and Burke: Sign of the Cross, Obit, and Barrington Street Blues Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFive Will Die Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Random Road Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Canadian Bomber Contract Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWashed Up: Bromo Perkins crime fiction, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRight Tool for the Job: A Memoir of Manly Concerns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDetective Frank McCord and the Time Travel Murders: Frank McCord Private Investigator, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Men Too Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStalking the Average Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWicked Game Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExpiration Date: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
General Fiction For You
The King James Version of the Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Terminal List: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Trusting Appearances
0 ratings0 reviews