Category: Characters
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Choctaw and Irish
The Choctaw nation and the Irish remember an incredible kindness from over 170 years ago. The Choctaw people were one of the first victims of Andrew Jackson’s Trail of Tears. They were moved to what would become Oklahoma. They were poverty stricken and destitute. They learned about what was happening to the Irish during the…
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Mazy’s POW backstory
Mazy did not lie to Phebe in Book One, for she only referred to the POW captivity experience with the other female intel operatives. She left out what preceded this. Mostly, Mazy blocked it out of her mind. Rarely, did she ever talk about it. But it began to rear its head in Book Four…
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Mazy’s Family History
Mazy’s family history is an interesting one and very New Orleans. Mazy Baptiste is black, to American definition, but not African American. For those confused, all African Americans are black people, but all black people are not African Americans. It is a specific ethnicity with traits such as their ancestors spoke English and were Protestants.…
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Recommended Nonfiction Books
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald for Peter Sullivan’s backstory and things in Book Six. I found this nonfiction book a fair and informative account of what took place in the 1974 riot and description of Southie. Generation Kill by Evan Wright. He was an embedded journalist in Iraq with…
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What do the characters look like?
Click on the pics for the links to their origins. No copyright infringement here. Miss Mazy, veteran Marine Corps lieutenant and intel operative, turned police officer when the outbreak erupts. She puts Nefertiti to shame! Miss Kanesha Kane, equipped with sassy attitude. Phebe when she had long hair. Peter sort of looks like this guy.…
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Why Ben Raven? A Salute to Native Veterans!
According to the USO, “Native Americans serve in the United States Armed Forces at five times the national average.” As of 2019, the Native population in the U.S. was approximately 1.4% but in the military 1.7%. Military Times reports: “To this day, American Indians serve in the armed forces at a higher rate than any…
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Wounded Warriors
Click on ‘Em “If you are able, save them a place inside you,And save one backward glance when you are leaving,for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them,though you may, or may not have always.Take what they have left, and what they havetaught you with their dying, and…
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