WHISPER IN MY EAR:
VOLUME 1, 2, and 3
Whisper in My Ear is a story of two loving couples–with ordinary desires and passions–who are called on to bear witness to an extraordinary time as they serve in the US Marine Corps and the US Navy, and strive to fulfill their duties and follow their orders, whether they agree with them or not, while a gruesome and bloody war rages all around them.
This novel also emphasizes the courage of the American Marines, soldiers, and airmen, as well as the important role women play in all wars, whether they remain at home or serve abroad, and the debt of gratitude the wounded owe to the critical and angelic care of a combat nurse.
Synopsis: It’s the 1960s, and cultural and political unrest is sweeping across America. In the midst of this turmoil, three young Americans find themselves on a path that sends them to join the war effort in Vietnam;
Set against the backdrop of minor skirmishes and culminating in one of the Vietnam War’s longest and bloodiest battles, Whisper in My Ear is a story of two loving couples–with ordinary desires and passions–who are called on to bear witness to an extraordinary time as they serve in the US Marine Corps and the US Navy, and strive to fulfill their duties and follow their orders, whether they agree with them or not, while a gruesome and bloody war rages all around them.
This novel also emphasizes the important role women play in all wars, whether they remain at home or serve abroad, and the debt of gratitude the wounded owe to the critical and angelic care of a combat nurse. The insane torture of captured and or wounded American Marines by the Apache woman is almost unbelievable but true, as are the facts about the Vietnamese culture and the war itself. The Vietcong women were also adept spies and snipers, and the male sniper characterized in the story is based on the life of a famous North Vietnamese mercenary. The story also depicts the exploits of the Vietnam War’s most famous American sniper, Marine Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, and the torment suffered by Americans in the prison camp known as the Hanoi Hilton. You will also learn about the unsung heroics of the “Brown Water Navy” and the “Blue Water Navy”, and the major impact they had on the war effort and in saving American and South Vietnamese lives. The contributions of our allies, particularly those of Australia, Canada, Sweden, the Philippines, and South Korea, is acknowledged in this story and gratefully appreciated!
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The Day God Played Baseball
I don’t know where I actually got the idea for this book, except to say that two of my daughters, Michele and Wendy, actually played on a Little League team called the Cherokees, when we lived in Pineville, Pennsylvania. The boys in their age category, who were also trying out for the team, were wearing their hair rather long as that style was just coming into vogue, and at that young age it was sometimes difficult to tell the difference between the genders. They were playing and hitting as well as the boys, and better than some. The coach didn’t know the names of the players, as they were all new, and he identified them by pointing and saying, “you”.
They made the team all right, but the coach did not know during the try out that they were girls, until I called them by name. He was shocked and actually walked over to where I was sitting in the bleachers, and asked me if they were really girls. I said, “Yes Coach, they are really girls.”
“But they’re playing better than most of the boys,” he said. Unfortunately, their baseball careers were short lived, since we had to move to Arizona for my daughter Kristen’s pulmonary health.
It turned out that they were the only two girls in the entire league who made a team, and when we moved to Arizona to a little town called Paradise Valley, we discovered the local school was named Cherokee Grammar School. I was thinking about that one day, and I realized it was almost a miracle they made the team-because they were girls, and it was at the coach’s discretion who could stay on the team and play in the games. Back in those days girls weren’t allowed to do a lot of things the current generations takes for granted today. Thirty seven years later, as I sat at my computer in the family’s junk room that I call my office (my wife took over the den with her own computer) it dawned on me they had pulled off somewhat of a minor miracle, and a thought popped into my head that it must have been The Day God Played Baseball!
Synopsis: The Cherokees haven’t won a baseball game against their rivals, the Creeks, in ages. The Creeks, under the leadership of wealthy factory owner Conrad Beamis, have won the championship two years in a row. Worse, it’s obvious that Conrad bribes officials and recruits overage ringers for his team. How are you supposed to beat a team that doesn’t play by the rules?
The Cherokees’ coach, Alex Sardinski, understands his players’ frustrations. The rivalry between the two youth baseball teams is all too personal for him. Conrad hates Alex and would do anything to see him fail. He’s even lured away Alex’s girlfriend, Candy, with promises of luxury and excitement.
Alex is at the end of his rope when help comes from an unexpected source. A mysterious woman and her son, Timmy, have appeared just in time for Timmy to join the Cherokees. Timmy certainly knows how to pitch, but in the last inning of the big game, Alex begins to wonder if there’s something else going on with the angelic youngster.
You’ll have to discover Timmy’s secret for yourself in this hilarious sports story that’s sure to be a hit with readers who enjoy seeing good triumph over evil.
THE PLACE WHERE THE GIANT FELL
Carrie Ann Benton and Rodney Buchard have been in love since grammar school. Her father, federal judge Horace Benton, has forbidden them to see each other. The reason? Rodney’s mother is Mexican, a fact that will hurt Horace’s prospects of becoming governor of Arizona—and one day, maybe president of the United States.
The judge needs the money and support of affluent voters—which excludes the likes of a so-called
“half-breed” like Rodney. Instead, Horace aligns himself with the state’s many powerful cattlemen.Defying her father’s wishes, Carrie continues her secret romance at an undisclosed rendezvous point inside Fire Mountain, unaware that someone is tracking them—someone prepared to end their relationship for good.Meanwhile, Earl, a wealthy cattle baron’s son, is duped into following their trail in hopes of professing his love to Carrie and separating her from Rodney once and for all.After an accidental death, US Marshal Max Greystone arrives to investigate and begins to unravel a twisted web of lies, deceit, and intrigue. Will the truth be uncovered before more people lose their lives?
WHEN BROTHERS MEET
In the interest of world peace…
That is the pretense for a meeting between America and a coalition of China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia. It is 2041, and the US president, Constance Higgins, recognizes the invitation for what it is. The countries are demanding a payment of gold. Previous administrations have sunk America into trillions of dollars of debt after giving citizenship and Social Security benefits to wave after wave of illegal aliens. Now, other countries scoff at the solvency of the US dollar.
As the financial crisis distracts the government, a sinister scheme is going into effect. Operation Dragon is a threat to the liberty of every man, woman, and child in America. The United States will have to rise up to fight an invading military force.
Army ranger Mike Dalton is one of the patriots to take a stand, but he is tormented by his relationship with the beautiful Kyla MacGregor. Their connection will have surprising repercussions in the fight that follows.
Through a cast of characters that includes army rangers, NSA, CIA, FBI, SS agents and everyday Americans, John Henry Hardy celebrates US patriots and the courageous spirit that built this country.
Synopsis: In the interest of world peace…
That is the pretense for a meeting between America and a coalition of China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia.
It is 2041, and the US president, Constance Higgins, recognizes the invitation for what it is. The countries are demanding a payment of gold. Previous administrations have sunk America into trillions of dollars of debt after giving citizenship and Social Security benefits to wave after wave of illegal aliens. Now, other countries scoff at the solvency of the US dollar. As the financial crisis distracts the government, a sinister scheme is going into effect. Operation Dragon is a threat to the liberty of every man, woman, and child in America. The United States will have to rise up to fight an invading military force.
THE LEGEND OF THE PHANTOM EFFECT
Harpie Colcek is a newspaper reporter assigned to write an article about a mysterious blip that appears on NORAD’s radar screen every Christmas Eve at 11:55 p.m. As he heads to interview a four-star general at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Harpie has no idea that what lies ahead is much more intriguing than what the radar techs call Santa’s Ghost or Santa’s Sleigh.
After Harpie inadvertently discovers the landing site of a space ship, he sneaks aboard and is horrified to learn the commander and the passengers are the only humanoids. The crew and passengers are an advanced civilization fleeing the planet Rau because its sun is dying. The FBI and CIA believe the blip is an aircraft planting enemy spies and saboteurs on American soil.
When Harpie reveals his discovery, chaos reigns throughout the world as militia groups and frightened citizens target anyone suspected to be an extraterrestrial disguised as a human. As a chain of events unfolds and a new world is revealed, the future of the human race hangs in the balance as superpowers prepare to unleash a plan with the potential to change everything.
In this exciting science fiction tale, a newspaper reporter becomes intertwined with an advanced civilization from another planet as evil lurks in the shadows and threatens an apocalypse.
In the EYE of An EAGLE
So you think another civil war can’t happen in the good old USA, Mr. John Q. Public? Civil war results when you don’t accept the results of a national election and the left has refused to accept the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election!
As a result, chaos now reigns all across the country! The left urged their supporters to kick their political opponents when they are down, confront them in public, get in their faces, run them out of restaurants, terrorize their families, and harass them on the street. Sections of cities are being burned by mobs, stores are being looted, and murder and other crimes against individual citizens are rampant in the sanctuary states as a result of the defunding of municipal police departments.
This tale you are about to read depicts what could happen to an average American family and to our country if the left wins the 2020 presidential election.
Synopsis of “In the Eye of an Eagle” by John Henry Hardy
Days before the 2020 election, a holdover from the prior White House administration stabs Ronald J. Trumpmeyer, the duly elected President of the United States, in the back as he sits in the Oval office. It is the only way the Tri Party (the old Democratic Party) can win the election. Consequently, the first Socialist is elected POTUS by a confused and misinformed American public. The Tri Party also retains the House, but does not win the Senate.
The Socialists then reopened the southern border to allow millions more of illegal aliens into the US to swell the ranks of the Tri Party in the heavily populated Blue states. Since they didn’t win the Senate, they could never get two thirds of the congress to convene an Article V Convention to change the constitution. They therefore intend to give the states legislatures unprecedented powers in exchange for two thirds of the state’s legislatures to convene an Article V Convention to nullify the 2nd Amendment, eliminate the Electoral College, elect a president by the popular vote only, and thus gain absolute political power vested with a one party system; the Socialist Party. Then the government will own and operates all means of production and control the distribution of all its products and services.
To counter this threat, conservatives organize a subversive group called the Sons and Daughters of Liberty imbued with the mission of keeping America a Democratic Republic by defending the original constitution as written 244 years ago.
Detective Mike McShane, a New York City police detective, is dedicated and blinded by his sense of duty to the city and the mayor in spite of all the turmoil plaguing the United States.
However, he discovers his wife Gloria and son Junior have joined the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and are soon arrested by the FBI. He slowly comes to see the violence of the left leaning Antifa, the enforcement arm of the Tri Party, the murder of policemen by the Boogaloo Bois, and the destruction and looting by the radical element of Black Lives Matter Movement, as the political actions in support of the Tri Party Agenda. However, the apathetic grass roots American electorate does nothing to stop the violence.
In the meantime, the Tri Party initiates social legislation programs, particularly Medicare for All, that drives the treasury broke and decimates the American military, spurring the military boldness of China and Russia.
Along comes the sniper, a military man who served the nation in peace and war. He realizes the insurrection for what it is; a civil war. Like Antifa, he begins snuffing out elite members of the Tri Party, much as Antifa has been doing to local conservative politicians across the country in order not to initiate a federal investigation, since murder is within a state’s jurisdiction. Thus, the electorate does not know what the left is doing at this point, but only that Tri Party elites are being murdered.
The story reaches a climax when the FBI is forced to investigate and acknowledge the murder of conservatives as well as that of the Tri Party elites. This spurs the electorate into action, and it forms militias to protect conservative’s rights, joins with law enforcement and the military to maintain the peace.
However, the country has been financially devastated. The one ray of hope for the country arises when Ronald J. Trumpmeyer again throws his hat into the ring. Can he resurrect the shattered economy and the demoralized American citizens?
Only time will tell!
Biography of John Henry Hardy
John Henry Hardy spent more than thirty-three years serving as an enlisted man and as an officer in the US Marine Corps.
He is also a retired AT&T Territorial Support Manager and earned his AA in Sociology and the Humanities, his BA in Psychology and his MA in Business Management.
A runner and coin collector, he wrote In the Eye of An Eagle after listening to and observing the widespread lies of the fake news media and those spread by corrupt and socialistic politicians that support the gangs of thugs that are rioting, looting, intimidating opposition party members, beating innocent bystanders, and committing rapes and homicides, all allegedly in the name of a life-long criminal murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. However their true agenda is to shred our constitution and change America into a one party socialist nation like the governments in China, Cuba, Vietnam and Laos.
John retired from the Corps in 1999 and now lives in Mesa, Arizona.
Dancing With The Devil
Who or what is the Devil? Does the name Satan instill fear in your heart and summon up a fearful image of a dark-eyed creature, brandishing horns and clutching a trident? Or perhaps is it his alluring smile and come-hither gesture that is luring your vulnerable soul into the throes of evil and eternal damnation!
Is God real? Does the name Lord engender a feeling of love and warmth at the mere thought of perhaps someday being in His presence? Or perhaps it is His love and forgiveness that beckons you to follow in His footsteps down the path of mercy and goodness and eternal salvation!
This tale reiterates the worst evils that mankind has perpetuated upon itself over the cons of time, causing immeasurable human suffering and the demise of millions of innocent lives. The evil characters depicted in this tale that torture the soul of the main character herein were true to life demons and their atrocities depicted in the story are factual.
However, wherever the journey a soul chooses to take is good or evil is determined by the free will inherent in every human being that has ever walked the face of the Earth. Will you choose a life of evil, and gamble your eternal fate as being mere dust in the eons of time, but if you are mistaken can you endure the everlasting torment of Hell? Or will you choose the other option, and live a good life, trusting in God’s existence and obeying his commandments, and being eternally thankful that when your soul departed from your body that you were not DANCING WITH THE DEVIL!