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MILITARY
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David Lee Thompson
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David Lee Thompson, USA served
in the 1st Infantry Division including a tour in Di An, Vietnam (1965-1966). He “grew
up in Bowen Creek, West Virginia. After serving his country during the Vietnam Era, he graduated from Marshall
University with an M. A. in education. Now retired from teaching, he lives in Salt Rock, West Virginia,
with his wife, Janet” David Lee Thompson is the author of River of Memories: An Appalachian Boyhood.
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According to the book description of
River of Memories: An Appalachian Boyhood, “David Lee Thompson has produced a caring and introspective
personal account of the vanishing Appalachian culture. This way of life existed for over twelve generations, teaching its
people the importance of family, community, and religion. Thompson s old home place, now empty and lonely, holds faint whispers
of what was once alive with laughter and reminiscences. His boyhood memories of life on Bowen Creek represent the last vestiges
of a time and place now nearly extinct.”
One reader of River of
Memories: An Appalachian Boyhood said, “Mr. Thompson's is a wonderful tale of a young man growing up in
rural America. It tells of a wonderful childhood filled with loving memories in a time when a child was still allowed to be
a child. It has both good and bad memories that add up to the formation of an interesting individual and family that anyone
would enjoy getting to know. If everyone could only be so lucky as to know someone like this it would improve the world as
a whole.”
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One reader of River of
Memories: An Appalachian Boyhood said, “In order for us to truly understand ourselves, we must look to
our heritage. As Mr. Thompson recalls to his readers the vivid memories of an Appalachian childhood, he entangles them with
the warmth of a heritage that may someday be forgotten. This work will possibly answer many questions of future generations
who may ask "what is Appalachia?”
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