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News
Release
Humble Texas Observer, 12/10/2003
PublishAmerica
recently released Jim Haycraft's novel "They Buried Charlie
Waverly Today," through Amazon, Barnes and Nobel and
other national outlets.
The book
is the Humble resident's first published novel.
"They
Buried Charlie Waverly Today" tackles a question most
of us avoid asking, or answering -- how will we be remembered
after we're gone? Charlie's funeral is the focal point of
the tale. Flashbacks place the reader at Charlie's side at
various periods in the hero's life. Tales of romance compete
with flashes of war's heroism, cowardice, pain, hatred, death
and combat scenes are expressed as one would-be publisher
stated, in a simple truthfulness that is both hard and grityt.
The native
Kentuckian -- after completing a 21-year career in the U.S.
Air Force -- retired to the Houston area in 1978. He began
writing seriuouly after undergoing open-heart surgery in 1990.
On active duty, he completed assignments in Morocco, Turkey,
Italy and two in Vietnam. Stateside service included tours
in Texas, California, Washington, Wyoming and Virginia.
Haycraft
grew up in Western Kentucky and afer a year of farm work,
entered the Air Force in 1957. While on active duty he finished
high school and graduated summa cum laude from Sait Leo University,
St. Leo Fla. with first an associate and later a bachelor
of arts degree in management.
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