Acknowledgments
“To dream once more I close my willing eyes…clouds interpose, waves roar, and winds arise. I shriek, start up, the same sad prospect find, and wake to all the griefs I left behind.”
Alexander Pope
“The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
Karen Armstrong. A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
“And her words flash in his mind, an unconscious surge of her emotions rather than a deliberate touch of her thoughts.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Heritage of Hastur. Darkover series.
“…spreading in fiery points glowing into words…”
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland.
The music of The Grateful Dead, Phish, White Zombie, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, The Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, The Rolling Stones, Dwight Yoakum, Alanis Morissette, Dave Mathew’s Band, Tracey Chapman, Jack Johnson, Black Sabbath, Tupac Shakur, Boyz-to-Men, Roosevelt Dean, and Public Enemy.
Many thanks to all the authors of Anchors Aweigh, America the Beautiful, by Katherine Lee Bates, and prayer songs used in the text.
Several lines were borrowed from various poets, including Walt Whitman, Alexander Pope, Gil Scott Heron, Lord Byron, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, e.e.cummings, Oscar Wilde and Denise Levertov, The Malice of Innocence, and from Karen Armstrong's--The History of God. These lines exist as memorials and homage to them. People quote from poetry and newspapers everyday; characters in stories do the same, whether aloud or in thought. Fiction mirrors life, and life reflects fiction.
General Charles C. Krulak, USMC. Admiral Frank B. Kelso II, USN. Admiral Arleigh Burke, USN. General Louis Wilson, USMC. General MacArthur. General P.X. Kelly, USMC. Former Secretary of the Navy, James Webb. John Paul Jones. Admiral Thomas Hayward, USN. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, USN. Admiral Robert Long, USN. Vice Admiral William P. Mack, USN (Ret.). Captain James Stavridis, USN. Admiral David McDonald, USN. Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale, USN
Admiral Jeremy Mike Boorda is presented as I remember him, a man standing in the hangar bay somewhere in the Adriatic, as a superior officer with mythological and heroic status, a sailor’s sailor— The words of his speech in the text concerning the war in Bosnia and our mission are his true words, as I remember it, as reported in a December news release issued by the ship for the crew and family.
I consulted many books, essays, articles, blogs and websites in writing this novel—my thanks to them all, with special thanks to...
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Project Censored
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A Deeper Look with Linda Olson-Osterlund
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Photographs:
Joe Boyle, Eddie Miller, Troy Prince, Steve Wright, USGS
On craft:
I am gripped by the people who continue to influence and inspire me--you have my respect, my gratitude, my best wishes. My teachers. Andrew Cowan. Prof. Patricia Duncker. Prof. Gary Kroll. Paul Magrs. Raistlin Majere, Master of Past and Present. Michele Roberts. Prof. Jose Torres-Padilla. My peers. Sally Alexander. Emily Bullock. Sarah Butler. Jane Camens. Tim Clare. Jo Zajicek Coleman. Andrew Duck. Sarah Flax. Oliver Harris. Melanie Harrison. Claire Hynes. Daniel Jeffreys. Annie Kirby. Katherine Kreke. Lucinda Labes. Ann Morgan. Anna Orridge. Jude Piesse. Devika Ponnambalam. Elizabeth Silver. Sarah Walker. Kirsten Jefferies. My family. Lucia Silu. Sincere Qawiyy. Riqya Qawiyy. Elan Qawiyy. Aiyanna Qawiyy. Joseph P. Bigley. Genaska Bigley. Evelyn L. May. Robert. E. May. The Buzzer. Taiji.