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DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Dr. Leff
TOUCH DOWN
SOMETHING SMELLS FOUL
BOMBS AWAY
NURSED BY PATRIOTS
THE SECOND CALLING
VD, RACE & RELIGION – THE PRESSURE COOKER
WATCH YOUR ASS AND TESTIFY
SHADOW BOXING
FREE LOVE & FREE CLINICS
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? CALLED BY THE WHITE HOUSE
GIVING CINCINNATI A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH
MOVING MOUNTAINS
DRIVING BY THE SEAT OF HIS PANTS
BACK ON HIS FEET
ANOTHER WAR
LOVE AND CANCER
AS TIME GOES BYE
GETTING HIGH FOR HEALTH
ON ONE’S OWN TERMS
NOBODY LEFT BEHIND
CITY COUNCIL ANYONE?
RESPECT, HONOR AND PRIDE
REFERENCES
It is with deep respect and gratitude that I would like to thank Dr. Leff and his family and friends, for sharing intimate details about his adventurous and controversial public and private life. Without their time, attention and support, this book would have been impossible, let alone believable. The old adage that “fact is stranger than fiction” could not be more apropos than it is to recall the life of this unique American hero who always matches his words with actions and tries to “do the right thing” in spite of personal consequences.
The recruits had been traveling across the globe for hours, anxiously awaiting their arrival and their first real time encounter with the war in Southeast Asia. Their first stop had been Bangkok Airport, where they’d arrived in a Boeing 707, which had been cleared of civilian passenger seats and fitted with rows of makeshift seating for maximum capacity, not comfort. After debarking into waves of humid, claustrophobic heat, they climbed aboard a C130; a plane that can hold an entire convoy of trucks. Udorn was the last stop for the C130, which made its three hour flight to five different bases, all officially leased from the Thai Air Force by the U.S. Air Force.
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When he joined the service squad he had only just turned fifteen. It was his first taste of authority and in spite of the immense challenges it provided or because of it, he felt like he had found his niche, his place, a reason to be proud of who he was and what he did. It wasn’t long until he was promoted to lieutenant and had his first command. Even though it was as a civilian and as part of the service squad in school, it gave him the experience he wanted and a peek into the possibilities for his future.
His time at Brooklyn Technical High School and as a member of the school service squad were exemplary, except for a little strain of rebellion that eventually broke through the cracks of his all-business demeanor. It was the food that did him in and provided the only reprimand he received in four years of service.
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