https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/semper-fido <h3> <font color="#344f2f"> <span> The Marine Corps mascot is an English bulldog named Chesty. This mascot was named after Marine Lt. Gen. Louis B. “Chesty” Puller, the only Marine to earn five Navy Crosses. </span> </font> <br/> <div> <br/> </div> </h3> <div> <img src="https://cdn.website-editor.net/s/41574adcd6e44ae3b8c886d75f89aad3/dms3rep/multi/english-bulldog-ge6547e4c7_1920.jpg" alt=""/> </div> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:25:06 GMT https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/semper-fido phord,mariko thumbnail main image https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/shimada <h3> <font color="#344f2f"> <span> An unseen presence forces the main characters to break military and local laws to save their lives... Shimada! A Japanese soldier who is running the jungles, refusing to surrender, even though the war ended two decades before. </span> </font> <br/> <div> <br/> </div> </h3> <div> <img src="https://cdn.website-editor.net/s/41574adcd6e44ae3b8c886d75f89aad3/dms3rep/multi/ales-krivec-KnV-mJDGWzU-unsplash.jpg" alt=""/> </div> Wed, 15 Mar 2023 08:45:57 GMT https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/shimada phord,mariko thumbnail main image https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/war <h3> <font color="#344f2f"> <span> Consciously and unconsciously, each character in this novel is imbued with the effects of war, that thread themselves through the entire book: the war of the past (World War II), the war of the present (Shimada’s aggression), and the war of the future (Viet Nam).  </span> </font> <div> <br/> </div> </h3> <div> <img src="https://cdn.website-editor.net/s/41574adcd6e44ae3b8c886d75f89aad3/dms3rep/multi/Screenshot-2023-01-25-at-19.34.00.png" alt=""/> </div> Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:11:42 GMT https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/war phord,mariko thumbnail main image https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/chapultepec <h3> <font color="#344f2f"> <span> A red stripe first appeared on uniform trousers in 1798, and reappeared in 1840 and 1859, partly because of the military fashions of the day. The popular story, which cannot be supported by fact, is that the red stripe commemorates the bloodshed by Marines in the Battle of Chapultepec in 1846. </span> </font> </h3> <div> <img src="https://cdn.website-editor.net/s/41574adcd6e44ae3b8c886d75f89aad3/dms3rep/multi/Screenshot-2023-01-25-at-19.34.00.png" alt=""/> </div> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:39:13 GMT https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/chapultepec phord,mariko thumbnail main image https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/my-post <h3> <font color="#344f2f"> <span> Until he fell in love with the Philippine girl, Mariko, Phord did not know what love was. Loving her, he discovered that love was not about security but risk, the risking of everything he held dear in life. </span> </font> </h3> <div> <img src="https://cdn.website-editor.net/s/41574adcd6e44ae3b8c886d75f89aad3/dms3rep/multi/AdobeStock_394975389.jpeg" alt=""/> </div> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:41:38 GMT https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/my-post phord,mariko thumbnail main image https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/redemption <h3> <font color="#344f2f"> <span> Emotional trauma is a powerful theme in the book. However, at the end of the novel, several characters realize their trauma delivers redemption.   </span> </font> </h3> <div> <img src="https://cdn.website-editor.net/s/41574adcd6e44ae3b8c886d75f89aad3/dms3rep/multi/AdobeStock_200901739.jpeg" alt=""/> </div> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:30:40 GMT https://www.jonfergusonbooks.com/redemption phord,mariko thumbnail main image