Charles Hughes

Years ago, I watched younger people than I asking questions about some things I had considered established facts. I wondered why they did not know this or that. Then, I realized they did not know because they had not been told. I decided right then and there, when I retired, I would write a book to enlighten these young minds with some words of wisdom from the past. I have assembled some stories from my life that will inform you. Some will entertain you. Others will make you laugh. Some will make you cry. Some will make you laugh so hard you will cry. And even some of our ancestry is very interesting. As you read each story, I hope you will look forward to what I might say next! It is my sincere hope that you enjoy reading this book as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

The Life & Times of Charlie Hughes

Adventures, Wit & Wisdom

The Evening Sky

Lewis "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated marine in the history of the Corps, fought in every conflict from the Banana wars of Nicaragua to the Pacific campaign of World War II and finally to the bitter cold Chosin Reservoir of Korea, becoming for his courage in many battles a true legend. The only thing Chesty loved more than the Corps was his family and chief among them was his son Lewis Puller Jr., the son he called "my immortality." The two men were very different, but a strong love bound them together. To please his dad Lewis joined the Corps during the Vietnam War, but after only two months in Vietnam he was blown apart by a booby trap rigged from an unexploded American artillery shell. He survived the blast but lost both legs and suffered other grievous wounds. In spite of his agonizing and painful wounds and difficult rehabilitation Lewis went on to become a father, earn a law degree and write his Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography, Fortunate Son. Sadly, however, after years of struggling with pain and battling alcoholism, Lewis took his own life. He was one of the veterans who dedicated himself to making the Vietnam Memorial Wall a reality and visited it regularly where he would sit in his wheelchair with his reflection looking back at him from the black burnished granite. He always left behind a long-stemmed red rose in memory of those names on the wall and never forgot all the suffering that misguided war had inflicted on the people of Vietnam.Puller: Thicker Than Water is a story of the cruelty, destruction and insanity of war, but it is also a moving story of the powerful bond of love between a father and his son.

Thicker Than Water: The Story of Two Marines

Puller

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Two of the greatest hunting stories in American Literature,Herman Melville's Moby Dick and William Faulkner's "TheBear," written not quite a hundred years apart, refl ect twodifferent stages in man's struggle against nature in the New World. InMelville's novel nature, incarnate in the shape of a great albino whale, isinvincible and believed to be immortal just as wild nature was believedto be inexhaustible in America at the middle of the nineteenth century.In Faulkner's story Old Ben, the legendary Mississippi black bear,also symbolizes nature, but, unlike Melville's white whale, the bearis mortal. What had seemed inconceivable to many at the middle ofthe nineteenth century had become all too clear by the middle of thetwentieth: Man with his increased numbers, insatiable appetites andtechnological power had gained the ability to destroy wild nature.These stories by two great American writers are fi ction, but theyconfront the reader with a tragic reality: From the moment Columbus'three small ships sighted the island of San Salvador in the Caribbeanwild nature in America was doomed. The mad captain Ahab's battlewith Moby Dick was only an episode in the epic struggle that followed;the death of Old Ben with the knife of a wild man in his heart was thefinale.

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"Charles Hughes can see and say things exactly. In 'Signs,' for instance, 'Blotches of snow in March' look like 'the candle wax / Left over from a party, dirty white / Beneath today's strong sun.' The subjects of his poems range from the modestly domestic (as in 'Mornings after Thirty-Eight Years,' a portrait of a long, happy marriage) to the gravely historical (as in 'Easter Spoils, 2012,' a moving meditation on the death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer). In the title poem of Cave Art, Hughes speaks of 'dazzling life that . . . still survives as art and evidence,' and this could serve as a description of the book itself."--Timothy Steele "The poems in Charles Hughes's quietly assured first book are alive with a thoughtful curiosity and an impartial eye. Charged with the insights of a patiently-led inner life, they amplify the day-to-day particulars of his world: a suburban block, Chicago mass transit, river and woods, the passage of seasons in snow or sun, and the corresponding seasons, severe or clement, of life. But, whether they are dark, like 'The River's Gift' or gently loving like 'November Song,' the poems in this book intelligently capture the saving importance of love, memory, and language. "--Joshua Mehigan "In these beautiful, moving poems, Charles Hughes unearths the 'stark, dazzling' artifacts, if you will, of a past that 'still survives as art and evidence,' in the words of the marvelous title poem, the words of a keen, big-hearted observer and a gifted craftsman. Cave Art is a wonderful, rewarding debut."--Greg Williamson A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charles Hughes was born in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a B.A. from Augustana College, in RockIsland, Illinois, as well as a J.D. fromNorthwestern University, and worked as a lawyerfor thirty-three years before his retirement. Hispoems have appeared in America , the AnglicanTheological Review , Dappled Things , First Things ,the Iron Horse Literary Review , Measure , TheRotary Dial , the Sewanee Theological Review ,Verse Wisconsin , and elsewhere. He lives with hiswife in the Chicago area.

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