Reading is such a great sport.  It started for me at age five with comic books.  One day I realized I knew what some of the words inside the cartoon characters’ speech bubbles were.  I hope you love to read.  It is surely the best way to connect to the best minds from whom you are separated by space, time, or both.

            On vacation I read Jeff Shaara’s story of World War II titled The Rising Tide.  This very factual, historical novel tells of the early events of World War II and the North African and Sicilian campaigns led by Dwight D. Eisenhower.  It describes the war from the standpoint of both Erwin Rommel (The Desert Fox) and his fellow German generals and Dwight Eisenhower and his fellow generals.

            Of particular interest was the representation of General George Patton and General Omar Bradley, two completely different men with fascinating personalities.  Patton never achieved as high a rank as most people believe he could have because his personality, while fascinating, also barred him from going any higher than he did.  (It is interesting that the highest rank to which he ever aspired was that of three-star general.  That was his dream from the beginning of West Point, and that is as far as he ever went.)  Omar Bradley, on the other hand, was remarkably resolute and strong and simultaneously incredibly modest.  This man was able to rise to the rank of four-star general, one of only four that ever served in the army.  This book is certainly well worth your time.

            Read any good books lately?  Tell me about them.