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Remember the true story in the Bible when Noah was building an Ark in the middle of the desert with no rain in sight, and there hadn't been rain in his "neck of the woods" for years and years.

Plus remember when the heathen in his day were laughing at Noah and taunting him about being so foolish as to build a big huge boat that wasn't even needed out in the middle of nowhere, and never will be.

Well years and more years went by and Noah just kept building away one piece at a time and working hard to build this Gigantic Ark that God told him to build while nobody else was listening or even cared.

They just thought Noah was nuts and that was that right? In other words as Noah was building his Ark, and everybody else was just going about their everyday business like nobody else's business

There are two very clear types of Historical Fiction, those that are merely set against a historical backdrop and the historical events are mere bit players recessed into the color commentary. The second type of book is a much different beast, take a historical event, place it in center stage and weave your tale around it using a combination of factual and fictional characters and events. This type of book is far harder to construct, extreme care to detail must be used, particularly if the historical event is well documented. History buffs will have your head if you get the slightest detail wrong!

An Obsolete Honor most certainly falls into the second category. The events of July, 20 1944 in Berlin are well documented. Known as the Valkyrie Plot and subject of a brand new movie staring Tom Cruise, this attempt on Adolf Hitler's life has been the subject of many

M/Sgt Jorge G. Herrera, Jr. discovered just what kind of a soldier he was when the Imperial Japanese Forces invaded Negros Islands in the Philippines during World War II. His heroic tale can now be told in the exciting new book, "Dare & Live."

The superior Imperial Japanese Forces overrun the spirited defenses that the combined United States and Philippine Commonwealth Government Armies put up in the battles for Bataan and the Island fortress of Corrigedor. The US-Philippines defenses crumbled against the onslaught of superiority of numbers of the Japanese soldiers, the naval and aerial bombardments. The valiant defenders had only one option: surrender. The Japanese Forces went on mopping operations on the more than 1,700 islands and islets of the Philippine Archiepelago. The Island defenders under orders of the Military High Command in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, gave up resistance.

In Negros Islands of central Philippines, M/Sgt Jorge G. Herrera vowed