Sunday in Hell, page 114
In February 2000, before Warwick House Publishing’s August 2000 release of A Return to Glory, the US Military Academy, joint faculty-graduate, Bicentennial Planning Group unanimously selected the work as a Bicentennial Book, granting imprint of the Academy’s Bicentennial logo on the book jacket cover, book cover, and title page.
In March 2005, Los Angeles-based Orly Adelson Productions, Inc., under contract with ESPN Original Entertainment, purchased television film rights for A Return to Glory, with ESPN planning for a movie based on the book, and a related documentary, based in part on the book. ESPN aired the one-hour, Winnercomm, Inc. documentary, “Brave Old Army Team,” on 6 December 2005, followed four days later with ESPN Original Entertainment’s highly successful, made-for-TV movie, “Code Breakers.” ESPN subsequently released a “Code Breakers” DVD on 11 July 2006, which included the “Brave Old Army Team” documentary. He participated in an on-screen interview in the documentary and at the request of Winnercomm producers, voluntarily served as the “fact checker” for the documentary before it was released.
His second book, On Hallowed Ground, The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill, published by the United States Naval Institute Press in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army was released in hardback October 2003, while the author participated in an AUSA-sponsored Authors’ Forum in Washington, DC. The work is a detailed account of the 6-11 July 1953 final battle for the outpost, three weeks prior to the Korean War armistice. In October 2004, after purchasing subsidiary rights, Berkley Caliber Books, an imprint of Penguin Group, USA, published the work in trade paperback. A screenplay is in progress aiming for a feature film based on the book.
He and his wife, Ronnie, married the day after he graduated from the Military Academy, live in Las Vegas, NV. They have three grown children, a son and daughter who reside with their families in Boise, ID, and a daughter with grown children, and resides with her husband in Missoula, MT.
Endnotes
1. Lucky Bag. 1. A traditional name for a space or container for stowage of articles found adrift. Unclaimed articles aboard ship are periodically sold at auction from the lucky bag, with the money made going to the ship’s recreation fund. A sailor losing something might be lucky enough to find it in the lucky bag and reclaim it. 2. Title of the yearbook for the midshipmen at the Naval Academy. ♠
2. Monssen was the newly commissioned destroyer Joey Border had had dinner aboard in Puget Sound Navy Yard fifteen months earlier. The skipper’s wife, Sally Smoot, also a close friend of Joey’s mother, had acted as bridesmaid and stood in for Joey’s father to give Joey away at the Border’s 15 July 1941 wedding in Long Beach. Lieutenant Commander Roland N. Smoot was still in command when the Monssen, after five months of neutrality patrol duty in the northeast Atlantic, rejoined the Pacific Fleet following the attack on Pearl Harbor. ♠
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