Authors

Joseph Murgia is a first-time author who wrote a compelling and insightful book about his experiences in the 1991 Gulf War. The book, "Dispatches from the Early Nineties or Memories from a Culturally Insignificant War," offers a unique perspective on the conflict that shaped the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East and the world. Murgia, who lives in San Diego, California, draws from his memories, journals, and letters to create a vivid and honest account of the challenges, dangers, and emotions he faced as a soldier in the desert. The book is a historical document and a reflection on the human condition and the meaning of war.

Born in England in 1970, Dominic Whitehand excelled in IT, earning an honours degree from the University of Central England in 1990. His work took him to Australia in 1996, where he settled and travelled across South-East Asia and Oceania. In 2002 he founded an IT distribution business, expanding over the next twelve years through business connections made via extensive travel across the USA, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, China, Thailand and Europe. After selling the company in 2014, he semi-retired in 2017.

Embracing semi-retired life in Sydney, Dominic launched an Amazon business in 2020.

His creative energies, however, found a new avenue in 2022 with the creation of the "Aussie Animal Ethics" series of children's books. Here, Dominic channels his global experiences and the rich cultural tapestry of Australia into narratives that spark curiosity and impart ethical lessons to the young. 

I am a Performance Life Coach.  I coach energy of people to become proactive in their choices instead of being reactive.  Help them start creating their lives instead of being the slave to their life.  

Residing in New Hampshire, Bill received his BLA in History and Creative Writing from Umass Lowell (UML); several pieces he wrote are published in “The Offering,” a UML annual student collection book.

Bill’s a motivated entrepreneur, an account executive in software sales, a husband, a father, and a novelist.

After volunteering for the draft in late 1969, I served in the United States Navy from 1970-74, serving aboard USS Mullinnix DD-944 from boot camp and A-school short of four years. Mullinnix, a Norfolk-based destroyer, was ordered to Vietnam in April 1972.

I returned from Vietnam with a physiological injury. The manifestation of which took five decades to appear. Five decades to finally realize that I had been severely wounded. My memories had an urgency I could not ignore. Like specters beckoning from the edge of a shadowy world. I’d killed people. Lots of them. Easy not to give it a second thought when you are young, foolish, full of piss and vinegar, thinking you’re bullet proof. Then time marches on. An old sailor replaces the young sailor. The old sailor starts to remember.

I remember what I did. And the damnable sky-lark attitude I had about doing it. It began to ravage me. In 2019 I reached out to the VA. Diagnosis? 30% PTSD service-connected disability. In 2021-2 my symptoms exploded. I was being eaten up from the inside. I was so stinking guilty I spiraled into a PTSD-induced depression. Without my wife Kim’s and the VA’s support this book may never have been written. I was damn scared. I knew I couldn’t continue on this trajectory. I reached out to the VA again. Diagnosis? 70% PTSD service-connected. I completed PTSD/Depression therapy, insomnia therapy, and cognitive process therapy/testing in addition to starting PTSD meds. Yet I took another psychological dive into the abyss. Diagnosis? 100% PTSD total and permanent service-connected.

Writing “Last Gunship USS Mullinnix DD-944 1972 Memories of a FTGSN” has helped me remove the lingering spiders in my head. You don’t get over PTSD. You learn to live with it.

I’m currently working on a second historical novel. A prequel as they say. Same ship, ten years earlier, set during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and Quarantine. I live in Northwest Arkansas with my wife Kim and Ely. Since early 2023 I’ve been writing full-time.

If you were in Vietnam, no words are necessary. If you were NOT in Vietnam, no words can explain. My book does. Available B&N, Amazon, Google Books, IndieBound, Books-a-Million, Indigo, Kobo, and Hudson.

I wonder sometimes, is history like the falling tree in the forest? If nobody remembers, did it still happen?