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Thomas L. Walsh graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Communications/Journalism degree in 1962. Following a successful business career, he retired to Idaho's Teton Valley in 1999, where he works as a free-lance writer. Walsh and his wife Wynne Ann both teach Alpine skiing at Wyoming's Grand Targhee Ski Resort in the winter. Tom recently published his first book.
"Damnyankee, a WWII Story of Tragedy and Survival off the West of Ireland," is the compelling story of a World War II U.S. Navy submarine patrol bomber which ditched off the west coast of Ireland in 1944 in a seething North Atlantic storm.
Four decades later an American arrived in Clifton, County Galway, claiming to have been a crew member on that aircraft lost at sea, and striving to reconfirm that this tragedy had occurred. With the help of a sergeant in the Garda, an Irish schoolboy, and an aging Irish maiden lady, the former bow gunner was able to reconstruct the incident. In the process, he found a way to honor those who lost their lives in the storm-lashed sea that tragic night.
The author's familiarity with Ireland and all things Irish adds additional perspective to the book. From a beginning in Norfolk, Virginia to a partial salvation at the tiny village of Ailleabreach along the Galway coast, this book has something for both WWII aviation buffs as well as those hopelessly in love with the West of Ireland.
Damnyankee is available through both Amazon.com and Barnes
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Conservative attempts to embarrass The University of Notre Dame will fail
Conservative Catholics and disgruntled right-wingers attempt to use the University of Notre Dame commencement ceremony to further their ideological opposition to the nation's most recent election.
Saturday, January 31, 2009 Michael Steele, The New Face Of The GOP? (2 comments)
Have the GOP mended their ways, or are they simply using Michael Steele for political expediency?
Saturday, January 24, 2009 An Elegant Old Man in Washington
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 The Walter Reed Scandal; A Disaster Which Had to Happen
The Walter Reed Scandal is But One More Example of the Irrationality of the Bush Conservatives Manic Drive to Privatize Every Government Function.
Thursday, February 8, 2007 War Profiteering Exposed To The Light Of Day
War profiteering has reached rapacious levels within the Bush Administration. Our new 110th congress will finally expose it to the light of day.
Saturday, January 27, 2007 Death to the Constitution (5 comments)
In the month of January alone, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made two shocking decisions that directly attacked the Constitution of the United States.
Saturday, December 9, 2006 Who Is Being Rude Here?
Why did George Will and William Cohen go ballistic over Jim Webb's response to President Bush's verbal challenge?
Saturday, November 11, 2006 AMERICA'S NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES (3 comments)
Eighty-six years after "Bloody Sunday,"
the GOP finds itself immersed in a similar bloodbath.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 GOVERNING BY THOSE WHO HATE GOVERMENT
When a country is run by people who hate the idea of government, why are we surprised when they govern so poorly?
Monday, June 26, 2006 BIGOTRY RULES THE GOP ONCE AGAIN (1 comments)
How the GOP uses homophobia and proposes writing specific forms of discrimination into the Constitution to rally its born-again extremist base.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Incurious AND Incompetent
Now the conservatives are the ones who are railing against the raw incompetence of George W. Bush and his inept and corrupt administration.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 INCURIOUS GEORGE STUMBLES ONCE AGAIN
Bush administrations approves Dubai/U.S. ports deal without president's awareness.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 A House of Straw
How the Rep
ublican Party destroyed the House of Representatives.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 The Real Siege of Christmas
O'Reilly and his group intentionally obfuscate the true meaning of Christmas, in an attempt to draw attention away from the crimes against society being implemented by the Bush adminisration.
Thursday, December 8, 2005 Armstrong Williams Alive and Well in Mesopotamia
The Bush Adminstration gets caught red-handed once more in using taxpayer dollars to bribe news organizations to sell their policies.
Thursday, December 1, 2005 A Fatal Autumn (1 comments)
How George W. Bush lost his presidency in the fall of 2005.
