STOPPING PROTESTS AT MONTROSE VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL

Steve Patten is launching a campaign to stop the anti-war protests staged at the Vietnam War Memorial in Montrose, California at the corner of Honolulu and Ocean View honoring our troops who never came home.

Steve believes in and defends Americans’ rights of free speech, to assemble peaceably, and to petition government for redress of grievances – all clearly guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.  While Steve would have no problem with these protests at other locations, protests at the Memorial, in his view, show disrespect for the sacrifice of our fallen heroes. 

If you agree with Steve, would you kindly consider making a donation to help defray any legal, public relations, fundraising costs for our effort.  Please mail donations to:

Lee & Grant International – please make checks out to “Lee & Grant”

2029 Verdugo Blvd #210, Montrose CA 91020

Website:  www.leeandgrantinternational.com

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E-mail:  leeandgrant@leeandgrant.com

Text: (770) 402-2948

About Steve Patten:  Steve served with the U.S. Marine Corps in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.  As a CBS News journalist after the war he spent years searching for POWs and MIAs believed to have been left behind while Steve also covered wars for CBS News in the Far East, Middle East, and Central America.  Today he is the editor of Lee & Grant International that reports on the Middle East, South Asia, and the War on Terror.

In appreciation for donations: To individual donors of at least $100., the president of Lee & Grant International, Pattie Mosure, and Steve will send an inscribed copy of “Foreign Correspondent” (www.facebook.com/thebookforeigncorrespondent), the book they co-authored on Steve’s career as a journalist around the world.

For any organization donating at least $2,500., Pattie and Steve would be pleased to have Steve deliver his 30-minute talk with no speaker’s fee on “How to Start Winning the War on Terror” at a meeting of the organization’s choosing. 

But any size donation is greatly appreciated.  Thank you all.  God Bless America.

CHICAGO CUBS WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS

Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs World Series Champions 2016 and all Chicago Cubs fans!!!!!

THAILAND'S KING BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ

Thailand has lost a great man in King Bhumibol Adulyadej.  Rest in Peace, Your Majesty. Godspeed.

VIETNAM WAR POWs and MIAs

Our book, "Foreign Correspondent," published September 2015, reported there were 1,627 still missing-in-action as of 1 May 2015 from the Vietnam War, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), the lead agency on POWs and MIAs within the U.S. Department of Defense. Some have been accounted for since then and as of 9 June 2016 the DPAA reports there are 1,618 now listed as MIA from the Vietnam War. As we say in our book, the number classified as Vietnam War MIA is remarkable given the U.S. sent 3.4 million Americans to Southeast Asia during this war.

ISRAELI STATESMAN SHIMON PERES

I was saddened to learn of the death of Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres.  On assignment to Tel Aviv for CBS News, I covered a press conference at his party headquarters back in 1982.  Chaos reigned as news reporters including me were trying to set up our microphones to record the event.  Mr. Peres seemed very amused at the pandemonium and, as I was positioning my microphone at his desk from where he was to address the throng, he looked at me and said, "Welcome to Israel!!"  He just seemed like a regular guy who enjoyed a good laugh.

Welcome to Heaven, Sir.  Please Rest in Peace.  And thank you for your efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.  Godspeed.

GENERAL JOHN VESSEY, AN AMERICAN HERO

U.S. Army General John W. Vessey Jr. passed away recently at age 94.  A World War II veteran, who rose from the rank of private to four-star general and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under President Ronald Reagan, General Vessey served for 46 years on active duty, a record for longest military service when he retired in 1985. He saw combat duty during World War II when he earned a battlefield commission as a second lieutenant and in South Vietnam when he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the army's second highest award for bravery.

He is especially and gratefully remembered by the POW/MIA community for his service as a presidential envoy following his retirement working to resolve the fate of the POWs and MIAs from the Vietnam War.

Thank you, General, for your service to America.  Rest in Peace, Sir.

UNITY IN AMERICA

After Dallas, Minnesota, and Louisiana, Let’s Come Together

By Pattie Mosure

In Minnesota and Louisiana two black men are shot and killed by police.  Five police officers die in Dallas, Texas after being shot by a black assailant.  These incidents are tragedies not only for the victims and their families but of the country we love. 

I write this not to assess blame or condemnation.  I don’t know what was behind the actions and motivations of those involved.  At this stage I don’t care.  What I do care about is bringing this country together.

I have a favorite expression:  Good comes from bad.  Maybe not always but we should try to make it so, particularly now when we remember the seven who have died in the tragic events of recent days.  Maybe this can turn us from the confrontation we see too much of these days to a determination to do better, to get along better.

President Obama got it right when he spoke at the memorial for the slain peace officers in Dallas.   “Scripture tells us,” the president said, “that in our sufferings there is glory, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.  Sometimes the truths of these words are hard to see. Right now, those words test us.  Because the people of Dallas, people across the country, are suffering.”

Former President George W. Bush, who lives in Dallas, struck home as well.  “Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.”  He added, “And this has strained our bonds of understanding and common purpose.”

Let us take that suffering that President Obama spoke of and turn it into hope.  Let us use the horrible events of the past few days to inspire us to conciliation, to cooperation, to hope, and, yes, to unity as a nation.  Let us leave the divide behind.

Surely we are capable of doing this.  I hope all of us will listen to our fellow Americans more.   I believe we will be glad we did.

_____________________

Pattie Mosure is the president of Lee & Grant Company and the wife of a 20-year retired U.S. Army veteran.

TO START WINNING THE WAR ON TERROR

PRESS RELEASE

Suggested Interview or Talk:  To Start Winning the War on Terror

MONTROSE, CALIFORNIA, 8 July 2016 – Are you looking for an expert to interview or speak before your group who will offer understandable ways to start winning this global War on Terror that today has Americans on edge and feeling unsafe right here at home?  

Journalist Steve Patten has been reporting on terror since he first went to the Middle East in 1982 as a CBS News reporter.  He is the editor of Lee & Grant International, has reported extensively on conflicts around the world, speaks Arabic (he co-wrote the textbook, “Learning Iraqi Arabic”), and is intimately familiar with the culture of worldwide terrorism.

Should you decide to interview Steve and need an introduction for your report, or want to introduce him before your group, a suggestion:

"Steve Patten served with the U.S. Marine Corps in South Vietnam and then, as a CBS News reporter, searched for years for Vietnam War POWs and MIAs while covering wars around the world.  Accused by CBS News of being a CIA agent, Steve reports today on the War on Terror and the real root of evil we must confront to defeat the terrorists and keep America safe.   It is not what you see in the headlines.”

Please contact me if you want an interview or talk that will engage your audience and assure your readers, viewers, and listeners we can start winning this war now.

Patricia Mosure

President, Lee & Grant International
www.leeandgrantinternational.com

Tel:  1-800-533-4726

E-mail:  ppmntpatti@aol.com

Text:  770-402-2948

If You Want Additional Information:

For a radio interview of Steve:  http://chirb.it/a2LzOa

For books by Pattie Mosure and Steve Patten:

www.facebook.com/thebookforeigncorrespondent - Steve's career as a journalist

www.facebook.com/learningiraqiarabic - learn to speak, read, and write the Iraqi dialect of Arabic

For Foreign Correspondent Media Kit:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fkq2ms9dpefpziz/forcorrmediakit.docx?dl=0

SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP

I want to support Donald Trump.  But, as I write to him in the letter following in response to a request for contributions, I have to ask him for one consideration before I do.

Dear Mr. Trump:

I would be pleased to support you, including offering foreign policy advice based upon my experience as a journalist covering world affairs.  This offer is conditioned, however, on an apology I believe you should extend to Senator McCain and our POWs that I addressed on my blog at www.stevepatten.blogspot.com and that you can read by going to my 8 May 2016 blog entitled "McCain and Trump." 

Consider, please just consider, the goodwill you would generate by a heartfelt apology to Senator McCain and our POWs.  I suggest to you it would mean a lot to the electorate in this country.

In regard to my qualifications on foreign policy advice, please go to:

www.facebook.com/thebookforeigncorrespondent

Best wishes to you and the Trump campaign.

Steve Patten

Editor, Lee & Grant International

2029 Verdugo Boulevard #210

Montrose, California 91020

Tel:  1-800-533-4726

Fax: (818) 396-5750

E-mail:  ppmntpatti@aol.com  or  leeandgrant@leeandgrant.com

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www.twitter.com/@stevepatten3

www.linkedin.com/in/stevepatten2

www.stevepatten.blogspot.com

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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MEDIA KIT

For the Media Kit on our book, Foreign Correspondent, please click on:

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MY $14 MILLION BILL TO CBS NEWS

In my 20 January 2016 letter to CBS News president David Rhodes I asked again CBS News pay me for my final expense reports dated 21 January 1987.  I offered to accept the $14,459.11 CBS News owes me in those reports and would waive any late fees and interest.  CBS replied it would not pay because the expense reports were being submitted some 30 years too late.  That is not true, of course, as the expense reports are dated January 1987 and that is when CBS News got them.

I gave Mr. Rhodes 30 days after receipt of my 20 January 2016 letter to pay.  After CBS declined, claiming the 30-years late submission, I wrote a second demand letter, dated 8 March 2016, pointing out that I could document CBS News received the expense reports nearly three decades ago, and waited.  I warned Mr. Rhodes in both letters CBS News indebtedness to me would substantially increase if I added late fees and interest.

Finally, in a letter and invoice dated 16 May 2016 I billed CBS News for $14,223,331.59, interest at 12% annual billed monthly at 1% plus a 1% monthly late fee.  Interest and late fees charged over 29 years, from 1 May 1987 to 1 May 2016.  I advised Mr. Rhodes the interest and late fees would continue until CBS News fulfilled its financial obligation to me, including all accrued interest and late fees.    #CBSNews

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Background on Steve Patten versus CBS

“Foreign Correspondent” co-author Steve Patten is the editor for Lee & Grant International, a subsidiary of Lee & Grant Company.  The foreign correspondent of this book, he formerly reported for CBS News in wars around the world, in the Far East, the Middle East, and in Central America.  He and his business partner, Pattie Mosure, currently report for Lee & Grant International on the War on Terror.  Pattie and Steve are the co-owners of Lee & Grant.  

He was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and spent years as a CBS News reporter searching for American POWs and MIAs from the war while stationed in Bangkok, Thailand.  Much of “Foreign Correspondent” describes his efforts as well as the efforts of the     U. S. Government and others trying to locate lost Americans from the war.

  

After CBS News selected him to be correspondent in Beirut, Steve was preparing to leave for his new assignment in Lebanon when the CBS News foreign editor told him on the telephone:  “The word on the streets of Beirut is you’re dirty.”  The management of CBS News was accusing him of being an undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency!!

 

He vehemently denied the charge and demanded CBS tell him where it got this information, which it refused to do.  CBS News eventually fired Steve after he continued to insist it reveal its secret sources of information, giving him a one-day notice of termination and sent him back from his post in Seoul, South Korea with a one-way ticket to the U.S. and a one-month’s severance.  CBS News delayed for over a year before paying the one-month’s severance and refused to honor his final expense reports as a reporter for CBS.

Steve pursued his demands that CBS reveal its secret sources for its CIA charges against him after his firing and went first to CBS News management and then CBS Inc.  He confronted the president and chief executive officer of CBS and the CBS corporate board at corporate shareholder meetings.  He launched a letter campaign addressed to CBS officials and passed out leaflets in front of the CBS News building and at the CBS corporate headquarters. 

CBS never revealed its secret sources.

Recently, Steve sent a written demand to the president of CBS News that CBS pay him for the final expense reports that were dated 21 January 1987 and amounting to $14,459.11.  He offered to accept this amount, without any late fees or interest, if CBS paid within 30 days.  CBS replied it would not pay.

Steve sent CBS News a bill May 16^th, 2016 including the original expense report monies due plus late fees and interest for 29 years, for $14,223,331.59.

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WHAT OUR BOOK, "FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT," IS ABOUT

When the U.S. sends its young men and women overseas to war, those Americans must know if they are captured, if they are lost, if they falter, if they fall behind, America will come back to get them and bring them home. The United States of America does not leave its troops behind.

This is a story of a CBS News reporter, Steve Patten, striving to maintain that pledge. It covers over 40 years, from when he was a U.S. Marine serving in South Vietnam to the wars he reported on in the Middle East, the Far East, and Central America, including the War on Terror that Steve and Foreign Correspondent co-author Pattie Mosure currently report on for their company, Lee & Grant International. It also takes place in wars of a different kind as he becomes a target himself.

Unjustly accused by CBS News management of being an undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, Steve fights on in his search for POWs and MIAs. Working also to clear his name, he demands CBS disclose its secret sources for its CIA allegation when CBS told him, “The word on the streets of Beirut is you’re dirty.” His confrontation with CBS goes all the way to the president of CBS Inc. and the CBS corporate board.

This book is intended to inform you, the reader, of efforts to bring lost Americans home and of the role of a journalist involved in those efforts. Most of all, this book is intended to keep faith with our heroes and our heroines.

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D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

God bless our American, Canadian, and British troops who stormed the beaches of German-occupied France to liberate Europe on D-Day 6 June 1944, 72 years ago today. Your heroism will never be forgotten nor that of your leader, General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MEDIA KIT

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PUBLIC SPEAKER

If you would like me to speak at your organization's meeting, please click on:

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SOLVING THE SYRIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM

A terrible consequence of the war in Syria has been the flood of refugees fleeing the fighting and streaming to countries around the world to find safety.  A dear friend of mine has asked how we solve this refugee problem.  While nations grapple with the problem of a sudden influx of refugees on their shores, a long term solution to this must include halting what is making the refugees flee, the ghastly brutality of the war in Syria.

This war will end when some country or countries put a standing army in the field in Syria and take out ISIS, aka ISIL, Daesh, the Islamic State.  The reason we need an army is that ISIS is an army that has moved with a good deal of skill and expertise in racking up its battlefield victories in Syria and Iraq over the last several years.  If you doubt ISIS' ability to wage effective warfare, check out military strategist Dr. Frederick Kagan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee 21 May 2015 that my co-author, Pattie Mosure, and I recounted in our book, "Foreign Correspondent."

It matters little whether this army is American, Arab, European, a mix of NATO countries, Chinese, Japanese, or is from Venus or Mars.  Or, whether we adopt Fox News journalist Bill O'Reilly's suggestion and put together a mercenary force of the world's professional soldiers for hire, of which there are many.  But put an army in the field supported by air power, find ISIS' army, and destroy it.  And kill all of its combatants, for the cruelty ISIS has amply demonstrated shows its followers are beyond redemption.

And let this be a warning to young idealists seeking to join ISIS and their parents.  If we catch you fighting for ISIS we will kill you.

In addition to destroying ISIS militarily we must destroy it politically.  That means cleaving from ISIS the support it enjoys in Syria and Iraq from their Sunni populations.  The Sunnis are the major sect of Islam accounting for 80-85% of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. 

So, while we are destroying ISIS militarily we send a day contingent down to Damascus, the capital of Syria, and escort that murderous despot, Bashar al-Assad, and all of his family out of town.  We cannot leave any of his family members in Damascus for they will engender loyalty from their supporters to rise in opposition.  Or banish the al-Assad family from the country and hang Bashar al-Assad from the nearest lamppost. But get rid of him.

Assad is an Alawite, which is an offshoot of the Shia, the principal minority sect of Islam.  Prior to the massive emigration of Syrians fleeing their country the Alawites probably accounted for only 15% or so of Syria's population of somewhere around 23 million.  The Sunnis made up about 75% of the Syrian population.

Put a Sunni or a group of Sunnis in power in Syria.  If ISIS is defeated on the battlefield and also stripped of its support from the Sunnis that will destroy it politically, ISIS will become an ineffective force.  We will have to monitor it for years, but it will not be the major threat it is today.

Leave an international occupying army in Syria for the immediate future to convince the various factions fighting for power in addition to ISIS that they are not going to win.  This should also weigh on Russia that its further meddling will accomplish little, especially with its client, Bashar al-Assad out of the picture. 

And tell the millions of Syrian refugees camped out in foreign lands that it is safe for them to go home.

CARNAGE CONTINUES IN SYRIA:

Recent news reports from Syria say a so-called fragile peace plan in Syria has broken down again. On my 8 May 16 blog I wrote about the devastation in Syria as reported in a NYTimes op-ed piece.  That was written by a Syrian doctor trying to save lives at a hospital in the Syrian town of Aleppo.  Again, the United States needs to exert its influence to stop this tragedy.  If we do not do it, who will?  To these people of Syria, Asalaamu alaykum.  Allah wiyaakum.  Peace be upon you. God be with you.

McCAIN AND TRUMP

From a news report 8 May 2016:

After months of largely avoiding questions about Donald Trump, Sen. John McCain broke his silence about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's provocative rhetoric that targeted McCain last summer.

Trump ignited a firestorm last July for his criticism of McCain, asserting he was only a war hero "because he was captured."

"I like people that weren't captured," Trump said then.

In a CNN interview Sunday, the Arizona senator called on Trump to apologize to former prisoners of war.

"I think it's important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for veterans," McCain said.

The Arizona Republican, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who spent years in captivity after being shot down during the war, emphasized that the apology should not be about him.

"What he said about me, John McCain, that's fine. I don't require any repair of that," McCain said. "But when he said, 'I don't like people who were captured,' then there's a body of American heroes, and I'd like to see him retract that statement. Not about me, but about the others."

Though McCain said he'd support Trump's presidential bid, he added that Trump's ad-hominem attacks during the campaign bothered him "a lot."

End of news report

My comments:

Although I support many of Mr. Trump's stated positions during this primary season, I fully agree with the above comments by Senator McCain.  Except for one.  Mr. Trump's apology should extend to Senator McCain as well.  Mr. Trump, Senator McCain is a hero.  Many of us say stupid things.  What you said about Senator McCain was stupid and incredibly unfeeling.  Please apologize to him and get on with your campaign.  I can support you, but not without the apology to POW veterans Senator McCain calls for and not without an apology to Senator McCain as well.  I am a Vietnam War veteran.

WAR IN SYRIA

Harrowing account of slaughter in Syrian hospital from Russian or Syrian air strikes in NYTimes op-ed 4May16 by a Syrian doctor there.  Asalaamu alaykum.  

The United States needs to exert its influence and power to bring this senseless and disgusting warfare devastating innocent civilians to an end.

DEFEATING ISIS

The Islamic State, aka ISIS or ISIL, is not going to be defeated until the U.S. and other countries fighting it put an army in Syria and Iraq to destroy it. A spokesman for the defense ministry of Saudi Arabia was quoted as saying his kingdom would be willing to participate in ground operations against ISIS. The United States should encourage the Saudis to make good on that pledge and urge other nations to follow suit.

WAHHABISM: THE TERRORIST THREAT

Greatest threat in the War on Terror: Wahhabism, the so-called Islam promoted by Saudi Arabia. "So-called" because it is not true Islam.

WINNING THE WAR ON TERROR

To start winning this War on Terror we must:
1. Confront and defeat ISIS.
2. Stabilize Afghanistan.
3. Refocus on Iraq.

CBS NEWS AND MY EXPENSE REPORTS

Those of you who have read our book, "Foreign Correspondent," know that #CBSNews fired me in 1985 in response to my repeated demands for an investigation into its accusation that I was a CIA agent using journalism as a cover. Neither CBS News nor CBS Inc. would ever reveal its secret sources for its CIA allegation against me. In an additional fit of pique after firing me CBS refused to pay the expenses I submitted in my final expense reports.
In a recent letter to CBS News President David Rhodes I reminded him CBS News still owes me reimbursement for these legitimate expenses I incurred and reported some three decades ago.
The e-mail response from CBS was priceless, which I reproduce below:

Letter to CBS News
From Lowy, Susanna M   susanna.lowy@cbs.com
To leeandgrant   leeandgrant@leeandgrant.com

Dear Mr. Patten,

Your January 20 letter to David Rhodes has been referred to me. CBS policy states: “Employees will not be reimbursed for any items submitted greater than 90 days from incurrence of expense.” As the expenses referenced in the documents you sent to David Rhodes are from January, 1985 (approximately 30 years ago), they are clearly outside the time permitted for submission of expenses and for this reason CBS will not reimburse you for them.

Sincerely,
Susanna Lowy

End of CBS e-mail

Resuming my comments:
Yes, I guess I was so busy these last three decades I just couldn’t find time to submit these expenses until now . . . . . . . Oh, really, CBS? CBS has had the expense reports in question for the “approximately 30 years” to which it refers and has been refusing to pay these expenses for all this time.

"FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT"

THE BOOK AND ITS AUTHORS:

In "Foreign Correspondent" former CBS News journalist Steve Patten reports on the years of his work at home and abroad, including:
- Search for POWs and MIAs from the Vietnam War.
- Covering wars around the world....

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VIETNAM WAR POWs AND MIAs

Our book, "Foreign Correspondent," published September 2015, reported there were 1,627 still missing-in-action as of 1 May 2015 from the Vietnam War, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), the lead agency on POWs and MIAs within the U.S. Department of Defense. Some have been accounted for since then and as of 23 March 2016 the DPAA reports there are 1,621 now listed as MIA from the Vietnam War. As we say in our book, the number classified as Vietnam War MIA is remarkable given the U.S. sent 3.4 million Americans to Southeast Asia during this war.

CONSERVATIVES AND DONALD TRUMP

Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee in this year's presidential election.  Before you,   my Conservative friends, decide to register your disappointment by refusing to back Mr. Trump, please read about my and so many Conservatives' blunder what seems a long time ago, the election that retired a good man, President Gerald Ford, back in 1976. 

Feuding Republicans, please take note of the following:

https://www.linkedin.com/pu…/look-conservatives-steve-patten

"FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT" RADIO INTERVIEW

Below is the link to our interview about "Foreign Correspondent" on LATalk Radio in Los Angeles:

http://latalkradio.com/content/sam-121715%20#audio_play

Wolfie and Emil begged but I wouldn't let them in to see the chef who puts them to shame!!!!!!!

"FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT" RADIO INTERVIEW

Interview by award-winning journalist Tammy Trujillo on her show, Community Cares, on Angels baseball radio station AM 830 KLAA, southern California:

http://chirb.it/a2LzOa

LEE AND GRANT LIBRARY FOR OUR PUBLISHED BOOKS:

1. Foreign Correspondent

Authors: Patricia L. Mosure and Stephen G. Patten
ISBN: 978-0-9968185-0-6
Social media: www.facebook.com/thebookforeigncorrespondent
Synopsis: When the U.S. sends its young men and women overseas to war, those Americans must know if they are captured, if they are lost, if they falter, if they fall behind, America will come back to get them. The United States of America does not leave its troops behind. This is a story of a CBS News reporter, Steve Patten, striving to maintain that pledge. It covers over 40 years and takes place from when he was a U.S. Marine serving in South Vietnam to the wars he reported on in the Middle East, the Far East, and Central America, including the current war on terror. And it takes place in wars of a different kind as he becomes a target himself. Unjustly accused by CBS News management of being an undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, Patten fights on in his search for POWs and MIAs. Working also to clear his name, he demands CBS disclose its secret sources for its CIA allegation when CBS management told him, "The word on the streets of Beirut is you're dirty." His confrontation with CBS reaches all the way to the president of CBS Inc. and the CBS corporate board. This book is intended to inform you, the reader, of efforts to bring lost Americans home and of the career of a journalist involved in those efforts. Most of all, this book is intended to keep faith with our heroes and our heroines.

2. Learning Iraqi Arabic

Authors: Patricia L. Mosure and Stephen G. Patten
ISBN: 978-0-9968185-1-3
Social media: www.facebook.com/learningiraqiarabic
Synopsis: Learning Iraqi Arabic is a complete, self-study educational course consisting of two textbooks, two cd's, on-line quizzes, and a final oral comprehension exam that teaches a student how to speak the Iraqi dialect of the Arabic language and to read and write it in its Arabic script. Answers to all the extensive textbook exercises and on-line quizzes are included in the course. It also introduces the student to Iraqi history, culture, and customs.

3. How Professionals Inspect and Value the Single-Family Home

Authors: Patricia L. Mosure and Stephen G. Patten
ISBN: 978-0-9968185-5-1
Synopsis: Learn how professionals evaluate the single-family home. This book is ideal for home buyers and sellers in real estate transactions wanting to understand how professionals see and judge their home. It will also help those working in real estate understand the process of evaluating a home as conducted by real estate agents, real estate appraisers, and home inspectors.

4. Speak-Easy

Authors: Patricia L. Mosure and Stephen G. Patten
ISBN: 978-0-9968185-2-0
Synopsis: Learn how to speak in public with confidence. Yes, you can, with this course co-authored by two journalists.

5. The HP-12C Financial Calculator

Authors: Patricia L. Mosure and Stephen G. Patten
ISBN: 978-0-9968185-4-4
Synopsis: Learn how to use the HP-12C Financial Calculator. Clear explanations with plenty of exercises accompanied by keystroke-by-keystroke solutions will give you the ability to use this great financial tool with confidence. In addition, there is a bonus section on teaching others how to use the HP-12C once you have become proficient.

6.  The Journalist

Authors:  Patricia L. Mosure and Stephen G Patten
ISBN:  978-0-9968185-6-8
Synopsis: Are you considering a career in journalism? Are you already a journalist but want to know more? Or, are you simply interested in what journalists really do? Then, this book is for you because it will look at the profession of journalism, how journalists go about doing their jobs, and the skills necessary to develop to become a successful journalist. We talk about investigating a story and writing a good report using proper English that will earn the respect of your readers. And, for those interested in broadcast journalism, we will cover how to speak in public.

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VIETNAM WAR: AN IGNOMINIOUS ANNIVERSARY

On 30 April 1975, Saigon, the capital of our ally, South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam), fell to the invading North Vietnamese army.  It is 41 years ago today, but it remains a terrible and enduring stain on the honor of America for having abandoned an ally we had pledged to protect and defend.

VIETNAM WAR: AN IGNOMINIOUS ANNIVERSARY

Tomorrow marks 41 years since the fall of South Vietnam to the invading North Vietnamese army.  It fell because the United States abandoned its ally.