Initially it was not my intention to write a book, I was just looking for answers. Answers to questions I had after my involvement as an infantry paratrooper with the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. And my life after death experience after I was stung by Giant Black Wasps went into anaphylactic shock and flat lined. I suffered a cardiac arrest and complete repertory failure. I was later able to relate procedures the medical staff used to resuscitate me while I was dead. I don't have to wonder about life after death, I know. Things To Come will give the reader a thorough understanding of what the Bible says and what Christianity means for a believer. The book is divided into six sections; The Covenants, covers God's Covenants, His chosen people and God's will for mankind. The Holy Spirit, whom the Father sent to us after Christ's assentation, details the twelve current ministries of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The Prince of Darkness explains Satan's role in everyday life. Satan is not omnipresent so he cannot possible involve himself in the daily affairs of eight billion people. God's Providential involvement in everyday life is revealed in the 4th chapter. The Tribulation and the Rapture addresses the final eventual battle between good and evil; Christianity and Islam. The final chapter The Alpha and the Omega specifies the personal relationship a believer has with Christ. Things To Come is a very good book for anyone that desires a deep understanding of Scripture and either does not have the time for daily reading of Scripture or finds the Bible hard to understand. A word about PTS (PTSD), there is no D, PTS is not a disorder. PTS is natural reaction of stress experienced after a person is exposed to a traumatic event. Many people suffer from PTS, it can be the result of a rape, an assault, the loss of a spouse, a child, a sibling, witnessing a horrific event or an accident. What makes PTS different for soldiers is that they are subject to frequent traumatic events over a long period of time. People respond differently to traumatic events, some are more resilient than others. Frequency, duration, and the extreme nature of the event all play a role in recovery. A major component of PTS is the moral dissonance we experience. The event can completely destroy our belief system, the ideas we held that made sense of the world we live in. At any point in time we are a summation of what we know and the experiences we have gone through. Events and information change how we see the world and in effect change who we are. A traumatic event can be so life changing that we are in effect a different person and after a traumatic event, the new you. In order to recover from PTS, it is imperative we reconstruct a new belief system that encompasses our new reality and the new you. In Just War, I (Tom Newman) recount the events that destroyed my worldview and fundamentally changed the person I was. The Company I was with in Vietnam experienced a 97 percent casualties and fatalities. Within my first 30 days in country we had a friendly fire incident that killed eleven and severely wounded nineteen of my fellow troopers. I also witnessed the aftermath of the regular assassination of four year old children. Additionally, when we retook the city of Hue we found the shallow graves of 2,800; judges, doctors, clergy, policeman, and politicians, anyone that could organize a resistance against the communists. It was a very long process for me to make sense of my new realities and the new me. My other book; A Brief History of the Bible' Things To Come, is the information I needed to reconstruct a new worldview bases on my experiences and the new person I had become. If you want to get your life back after suffering from PTS, it is imperative you find a new worldview for the new you.

Things To Come: A Brief History of the Bible

Religion & Spirituality

Newman, Tom

Christian Books & Bibles

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Just War follows my experiences as a combat infantryman. As a paratrooper, I was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. I served in Vietnam from Feb of 1968 through Feb of 1969, the bloodiest year of the war. I was assigned to “First Strike” the modern day equivalent of the Cavalry. “First Strike,” was engaged in the Tet Offensive in Hue and numerous excursions into the A Shau Valley. By the time I had been with Bravo Company 70 days I was the 3rd oldest member of the platoon, the other 40 members had either been killed or wounded. I would spend an additional 180 days in combat. As a Trooper with Bravo Company I made 76 helicopter insertions, 54 of which were into hot LZ’s. In the year I was with the “First Strike” we sustained 97% casualties and fatalities. There were 26 times, that I am aware of, that I should have been killed or at least severely wounded, and one time… I was placed on a gurney and rushed into the emergency room. When they brought me in the ER Doctor looked at me, with no facial features, and said, "What in the hell happened to him?" When I heard his question I realized a wasp had stung me in the mouth, and I had bitten down on it just to stop the pain. I pulled the wasp out of my mouth and held it up for anyone to see. I then went into anaphylactic shock, and suffered a cardiac arrest and complete respiratory failure. I flat lined. As soon as I died, my spirit and my soul left my body. I just kind of floated up to the top of the operating room over the bed where my body was laying. Why couldn't they see me? I could see them. I looked at my hand and it was translucent, I could see through it. They could not see me because I was translucent, and you cannot see something unless it reflects light. I was aware that I was fully conscious. It was still me, and I was still the person Tom Newman. As I looked at my body it was as if my body was a glove and I am the hand. The next thing I remember was waking up in the recovery room. I was astonished as I reviewed what had just occurred. I had just existed outside of my body. Frankly, it is very hard to believe it happened. I was thinking, OK, what was that? Was it a dream? Had I been in shock? They were giving me shots, was it the effect of the drugs? But how could I verify that I had actually been alive outside my body? The Orderly was coming by making his rounds. "Oh, I see you're coming around, how ya feeling?" I looked at him and said, "Why were you guys putting blood in one arm and taking it out of the other?" With a very surprised look on his face he said, "Man, how the hell do you know we did that, you were gone?" That was what I needed to hear, if it had not been a real conscious experience for me, how would I have known what procedures they use to resuscitate me. Many people wonder about life after death, I don’t wonder about it, I know.Just War - many of the misnomers of the war; the real enemy, the everyday heroics of US soldiers. The legacy of Vietnam has unfortunately been cast in such a negative light that the shadow eclipses the actions of so many brave Americans that served to preserve the ideals of American liberty and values; One Nation under God. It is left to those that take up arms for those ideals that truly understand the cost by the price that so many paid. 2,709,918 soldiers served in uniform in Viet Nam 74% of veterans said they would do it again, even knowing the outcome. Only the witnesses of the price paid truly understand the cost. The US never lost a battle of any consequence and battlefield ratios were typically, 207 communists’ killed in action for every one American. The US lost 58,148 soldiers the communists lost a million. Gen Westmoreland thought we would reach a tipping point where the communists would be unable to sustain a prolonged engagement. What we failed to realize is that the communists did not care how many of their people were killed.

Just War: A Soldier's Revelation

History

Military

America: What the Hell Went Wrong, is essentially the first 200 years of Colonial American History. However, to understand what our Founding Fathers grappled with we have to understand history in general. The Founders considers the impact of some of the major events in history and the consequences those events meant for their country, government and their citizens. These events had an impact on the Founders and in their process of forming a nation, by creating a new form of government. That means we must consider the origins of major worldwide events: Christianity, the Catholic Church, The Protestant Reformation, the Inquisition, and the theory of evolution. Our Founding Fathers saw the history of failed democracies; from Rome to Greece to the Weimar Republic, they struggled to create an entirely new form of Government. Governments left unchecked are prone to corruption and an abuse of their powers. An abuse of power eventually leads to encroachments on the liberties of its citizens. The Founders designed a government based on a written Constitution, based on written law, not on the whims of a capricious government, or a king or monarchy. The Founders did not rely on man's law, but on God's revealed law. They designed a government that would protect the rights of its citizens, not work to limit those rights. The basic premise is that these rights are given to man from God, therefore they are unalienable, and cannot be taken from man by any government, so the Founders set about to create a government with the purpose of protecting the rights of its citizens. To be an American citizen it is important to understand the intent of the Founding Fathers. What issues they grappled with, what was their reasoning process and what was it they hoped to accomplish?

America: What the Hell Went Wrong (Truth)

Americas

Independently published

Fourteen-year-old Tom Newman was living in Hungary-occupied Czechoslovakia when he and his family were rounded up by Nazis and sent on trains to the concentration camps. Relying on a mixture of luck and an inexhaustible reservoir of hope, Tom survived a year in Auschwitz and the Death March to Buchenwald, where he came close to dying before the American military arrived. The only survivor from his family of nine, Tom eventually regained his health and made his way to Budapest and later Prague, taken in by loving relatives. In search of his own new home, Tom successfully applied for Canada’s War Orphans Project. Settling in Toronto, he completed his education, became a chartered accountant, and built a thriving practice. He also started a family and today, in his nineties, is a doting father and grandfather.

Surviving on Hope: A Memoir of the Holocaust and a Life Beyond

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Page Two Press

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