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Ed Marohn
Idaho Falls Chapter
Ed Marohn retired from the corporate world with his wife, Cathie, to eastern Idaho near the Yellowstone and Teton National Parks and close to where he skis at Grand Targhee. In addition to full time writing he mountain bikes and travels to exotic places such as Africa and Vietnam.
As an Army Airborne Ranger Captain, he served in the Vietnam War, commanding a unit of 110 men and was awarded three Bronze Stars, one Air Medal, two Army Commendation Medals, one US Army Vietnam Campaign Medal with two campaigns, the South Vietnamese Campaign Medal, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
Other military tours included Germany, Washington, DC, and The Netherlands as NATO Liaison (Dutch language trained by the US State Department). From 1972-75 he was the Assistant Professor of Military History at the University of Nevada, Reno.
After his military service he was senior executive with an international tire company – directing sales in North America with extensive international business travel in Germany, Mexico, Japan, Canada (VP of Operations), and South America.
Writings:
The original manuscript of The Phoenix Legacy won 1st Honorable Mention in the 2010 IWL Novel Contest and is now an eBook on Amazon.com, Kobo.com, Barnes & Noble.com, and Borders.com. A short story, Retirement, won 2nd Honorable Mention in the 2010 IWL Short Story Contest. A historical novel, The Legacy of Wars, made the quarterfinals in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and a short story, The Time Lapse, made the finals in the Armed Forces Writers Anthology by the Nicholas Literary Agency.
Published articles are as follows: “Brainwashing: Man Over Mind” Army Magazine; “Rate Your Professional Performance” and “Nine Ways to Improve Your Professional Performance” Personal Selling Power Magazine; “Technical Sales” and “The Sales Call” Roads & Loads Magazine; “Sales Forecasting”, “Technical Sales—How to Succeed in Tough Times”, and “The Sales Call—How to Succeed in Tough Times” On The Move Magazine; “Payment Terms—A Part of Our Responsibility” Credit & Sales Newsletter.
He is a Guest Columnist for the Post Register Newspaper , a member of the Idaho Writers’ League, and on the Board of Directors for the Idaho Humanities Council.
Education:
BA in Political Science and History, University of Idaho, 1968.
MA in Counseling, University of Nevada, Reno, 1975. Thesis: A Study To Determine The Variables Of Brainwashing -- Its Proces And The Resistance To It
Dutch Language Professional Proficiency Level, graduated from Foreign Service Institute, State Department, Washington, DC, 1975.
MBA level courses at University of Dallas, Lake Forest Graduate School of Business; Darden Business School (Executive Sales and Marketing) at the University of Virginia; City Colleges of Chicago; University of Wyoming; University of Akron; Heriot-Watt University.
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Psychologist John Moore is shocked that his Vietnam War PTSD patient, Tom Reed, committed suicide. But Dr. Moore believes that Reed was murdered because of what he revealed in psychotherapy the day before: Reed had killed an unarmed POW in the war over thirty years ago, tossing him out of a helicopter per orders by Tod Ramsey, a CIA Agent in the Vietnam War’s Phoenix Program.
Moore himself flashes back those thirty years to Southeast Asia upon hearing Ramsey’s name: as a Captain, he had countermanded Ramsey, saving two unarmed POW officers from execution. Moore seeks justice for Reed’s death which leads him to the Phoenix Program, Ramsey’s crime of killing of villagers, and hidden gold in the Vietnam jungles: extorted through torture and murder of Vietnamese civilians and the Viet Cong. Pressured by the two former POW NVA officers that Moore had saved, now high level Vietnamese communist officials, he pursues Ramsey who has fled the US for Southeast Asia.
In the sweltering jungles of diverse, mysterious Vietnam, John Moore partners with Hieu, an attractive female Vietnam National Police Agent, to find Ramsey who is trying to recover the gold. All the while Moore battles with his past traumatic war demons while allied with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – his former enemies and their descendants – in hunting a fellow American. His moral conflict over revenge and killing is tested when Hieu is wounded by Ramsey during the chase from Vietnam into Laos. Now with strong feelings for her he is forced back into the jungle, hoping to save her at all costs, not knowing if he will survive the confrontation or his mental anguish
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