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Gary loved to play basketball from the first moment his hands touched a ball and he dribbled up and down his stairs. He always dreamed of playing point guard on the high school varsity team. Flustered by fights with the town bully, and conflicts with a coach who never gave him a fair shake, Gary transferred to Ashland High for his senior year.

Ashland was a sleepy little farm community in Illinois, it was the place where he had been born. Gary wasn't treated like a new kid at all; he was a wayward friend who'd finally returned home. Everything began to click with his new coach and...

Victor W. Pearn was born in 1950 in Jacksonville, Illinois and began writing poems at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii when he was 21 years old. He earned his BA from the University of Illinois, Springfield, and his English Literature MA in creative writing at Colorado University, Boulder. "One Year of Grace," won the 1983 university wide poetry contest, and was printed as the prologue in the 1984 Coloradan by Colorado University.
Hes the author of Devil Dogs and Jarheads, a collection of poems describing the culture of the U. S. Marine Corps during the war in Viet Nam, published by Michael Cooper, at...

"Victor's poetry contains both strength and appealing imagery," Gwendolyn Brooks. A good choice for 20th-century American poetry collections," George M. Eberhart, Senior Editor American Libraries. "This is an important work by a major American poetic voice," Kirk Judd, Poetry Judge for "Writer's Digest." "As a young Captain in Vietnam, through my career as a Major General, I have experienced many scenes and feelings that are in Victor's poems," Donald R. Gardner, CEO, USMC University Foundation. "There is a long tradition of War poetry and now Victor Pearn's "Devil Dogs and Jarheads," belongs...