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I was going to tell you all sorts of interesting things today. But… here’s a quick reminder that AJ Vosse has now got two books available on Kindle and paperback… yep, look here…
The Lucky Thirteen…
True Stories and Other Lies.
One thing I can promise… looking won’t hurt. Well, neither will getting your own copy!
In the past, I have requested questions for AJ Vosse… the storyteller. Look up, below the banner… you’ll see there’s a page there, where I’ve answered questions as truthfully as possible. Questions about the writer… not so much about the content of the stories.
Anyway… AJ Vosse, in another life, was a serving military member, so I suppose that makes him a veteran. There is something fundamental about serving in the military that can only be fully understood if you have served. Camaraderie is a concept that modern managers and others in the workplace, who never served, can’t grasp. I usually simplify it by saying it is that special bond that forms when you have to cover your buddy’s back, while he’s covering yours.
OH yes, you say… that happens each and every day in the workplace. However, there’s a subtle difference to this back covering… it usually happens under fire or in hostile situations… and most of the times your buddy is a total stranger!
Something else a veteran will tell you… the military never really leaves you… even when you have long left the military! It’s easier to change jobs in civvy-street and within weeks or months you move on… and tend to forget who you worked with, because you want to forget. However, you can try as hard as you like to forget the military… very often you just can’t! Even years later the memories flood back.
So, why am I telling you all of this? Because, for years I have yearned to connect with like-minded folk… and now I can… by means of The Sandbag Times Radio. I’m finding my feet, slowly but surely… and having fun while playing music I love. No adverts, no banal chatter, no up your own posterior ego stuff… no cursing or blasphemy… just a bit of chat and a whole lot of great music!
Maybe… just maybe that’s why this song is so potent… and why I love it so! Freedom… somebody usually has to pay for it!
PS – If you’re wondering… I’m slowly but surely getting into a routine… week-day evenings between 18h30 IST and 20h30. As the need increases I’ll lengthen the shows…
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17 Responses to Alternative A to Z – Vosse, AJ Vosse – Veteran
Ek is besig om jou een boek te lees…jy skryf werklik baie goed en elke kortverhaal het ‘n les in. Sover het ek die storie van John B Smith baie geniet. Jy het dit so goed beskryf dat ek eintlik verras was dat hy nie op die end gekul is deur daardie vrou nie.
Dankie… dis ook die langste storie wat ek in ‘n boek het! Ek laaik daai storie ook. Nee, hy’s eintlike ‘n goeie siel… hy moes sy belooning kry! 😉
Ek sal later nog terugvoer gee…eintlik sou ek liewer vir jou epos wil stuur. Ek wil nie op jou blog dit doen nie, anders gee ek nou geheime weg. Ka jy dalk jou adres vir my gee…sommer op my blog, dan vee ek dit dadelik weer uit.
Dankie… die epos adress is in my About te vinde so ek gee nie om as ek dit hier plaas nie.
Ek sal rerig daarvan hou as jy die terugvoer ook plaas op Amazon, dit help baie! Maar, ek dink ook om hier op die blog ‘n terugvoer blaai oop te maak… sodat mense hier ook kan sien wat ander dink van die stories…
Dankie weer!! 😉
Dankie..sal so maak!
Dankie… dit beteken baie!
Het vir jou epos gestuur.😄
Dankie… ja, ek het geandwoord!! 😉
Jou musiekkeuses maak my altyd bly! Brothers in Arms is ‘n grootse lied.
Dankie… dan slaag ek met my daaglikse teiken om ten minste een mens op aarde te laat glimlag! 😉
25/04/2019 at 05:02
Hartlik geluk met jou twee boeke op die rak! Dit is en bly ‘n groot prestasie. Dit verg moed en deursettingsvermoë om dit te doen. Mag hulle suksesvol wees.
25/04/2019 at 06:46
Dankie… ja, jy praat uit ondervinding!
Mens moet oor en oor leer oor verwerping en negative kritiek… nie altyd lekker nie!
Wat is die ou geségde? Aanhouer WEN!! 😉
Ek dink niemand besef hoeveel waagmoed jy aan die dag moet lê nie, hoeveel vrees jy moet oorwin nie. Baie sterkte. Jy het dit weer eens reggekry! 😊
Dankie… dit raak makliker… ek werk aan nommer drie!! 🙂
Mooi! My nr 3 vorder uiters stadig.
Terug na daai punt… aanhouer WEN!!
Lekker stadig vorder… dis ook vordering! 😉
Dankie. Ag, ek sal weer daarby kom. Sterkte vir jou nr 3. 😊