Nancy Hayden Curry

Nancy attended the University of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts University studying music education and piano performance. Shortly afterwards, she moved to Central Florida’s east coast, where she studied computer programming at Rollins College (at Patrick Air Force Base) while making her living as an oyster shucker near Cocoa Beach. She was graduated from Rollins College in 1985 with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems. Nancy was employed as a computer programmer for six years, five of which were at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was at the Space Center where she met her future husband, Parris Curry, a Marine Vietnam veteran who served two tours of duty, one with 1st Battalion 26th Marines in 1968 and 1969.

Nancy moved to the Atlanta area where Parris took a position with a subsidiary of Delta Airlines. Extensive volunteer work at her daughter’s elementary schools prompted Nancy to enroll in the Early Childhood Education program at Mercer University. At Mercer, Nancy was honored in 2004 with the Mercer University’s Tift College of Education Outstanding Student in Teacher Education Award. She was also recognized by the United States Achievement Academy with the honor of All-American Scholar 2004 National Collegiate Award. Nancy graduated in 2004 with a B.S. in Early Childhood Education. It was during her time at Mercer University that Nancy was inspired to write and illustrate the poetic and educational children’s book, Play Hopscotch on Saturn’s Rings. It is the first in a planned series of similar educational children’s books.

Please see the following book(s) by Nancy Hayden Curry: Play Hopscotch on Saturn's Rings

John Edmund Delezen, a retired fisherman and boat captain, lives in his native state of Florida. Trilingual, he travels often throughout Asia while studying ancient histories of various countries and cultures. He and his wife Kelly consider Saigon “home”; they spend time there each year. Most of his poetry and prose remain unpublished in America, yet have found their way into a number of languages.

Please see the following book(s) by John Edmund Delezen: Red Plateau

Charles Kelley

Charles Kelley grew up in a small town in Florida and currently reside in Georgia. His Vietnam service was from September 1967 to September 1968 along the DMZ with a 175mm gun outfit headquartered on a Marine gun park called “Camp J.J. Carroll.”

After completion of the Rank III program at the University of Central Florida, after a stint at teaching high school and junior college engineering courses, he went back into the engineering field. During his component-engineering career, he was involved in advanced design concepts, design and development, preproduction, and production of military grade weapons systems as well as space grade hardware.

In 2002, he became disabled from an accumulation of medical disorders developed since returning from Vietnam. When he was not researching these medical issues over the past four years, He has been assisting his battalion members as well as some of his brother 1 Corps Marines to understand the possible widespread impacts of not only Agent Orange and dioxin, but also the possible effects of Agents White and Blue to themselves as well as their children.

Please see the following book(s) by Charles Kelley: Vietnam's Orange, White, and Blue Rain Agents and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Robert McLane

Robert McLane was born in Cameron, Texas, a small central Texas town ninety miles north of Austin.  When he was twenty-two months old, he contracted polio but fully recovered. At three, his family moved to the East Texas town of Tyler where he spent his next fourteen years but often spent summers with his brother and sister in Cameron on his grandparents’ farm.

He attended college in Tyler for two years and joined the Marine Corps Reserve in the summer of 1965. In the fall of 1967 he was returned to active duty. His tour of duty in Vietnam with an artillery battery along the DMZ included most of 1968, the bloodiest year of the war.

Upon discharge in January, 1969 he enrolled at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas but dropped out in 1970 to go to New York City to help form The Vietnam Veterans Against The War. He dedicated the next three years of his life to VVAW as the editor of their newspaper, The First Casualty and participated in most of their demonstrations.

In 1974 he was involuntarily committed to a Veteran’s psychiatric hospital in Waco, Texas.

After being released, he headed back to New York City where he drove a taxi for five years and attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Hunter College, majoring in theater and film.

He married in 1981 and moved back to Texas where his daughter Tiffany was born in 1982. In 1985, he divorced and moved to Shreveport, Louisiana and raised his daughter with the help of his mother as a single parent while struggling with his own PTSD.

When David Duke ran for senator in Louisiana, Robert founded an organization called DUKEBUSTERS and blanketed the state with anti-Duke bumper stickers. This led to his founding No Respect Publishing that continues to manufacture and sell anti-Republican bumper stickers and buttons.

He continues to dedicate his life to issues of peace and justice and manages to spend part of the winter at his hideaway in Mexico.

Please see the following book(s) by Robert McLane: Stop War America

Ernest Spencer