Slater Davis is a husband, father, and grandfather. He grew up in Griffin, Georgia where he met and married his wife, Becki. In 1969 Slater & Becki moved to Atlanta after he was hired by Southern Bell. In 1970 Slater was drafted into the Army and had his Infantry training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. After his training he served in Vietnam beginning in November of 1970 as a member of the Americal Division. During his tour in Vietnam Slater served with two different Infantry units within the Americal Division: Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 11th Light Infantry Brigade; and Delta Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 198th Light Infantry Brigade. Slater writes about his military experiences and the lasting impact of them in “349 Days”. He is a lifetime member of the Americal Division Veterans Association (ADVA) and a graduate of Georgia State University, in Atlanta, Georgia. He is now retired, after 46 years with the phone company, and a resident of Ellijay, Georgia. He can be reached at www.slaterdavis.com.
Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola.
Somewhere on the border between reality and fantasy lies the land of “What Ifs.” A little boy wakes from a busy dream to discover something has changed in his safe, familiar bedroom. A horn that looks exactly like the ones in the pattern of his bedspread is lying on the rug beside his bed. “What if,” he thinks, the cotton soldiers on his bedspread came alive and left it behind? A child’s fantasy. Or is it?
