Dick Stanley is an award-winning, retired daily newspaperman in Austin, Texas. "Leaving The Alamo: Texas Stories After Vietnam," his collection of sixteen unique short stories, grew out of his adjustment to civilian life after six months of infantry combat in Vietnam.
Dick was born in Sumter, South Carolina, the descendant of a long line of Southerners, particularly Texans and Mississippians. The son of a career military officer, he grew up throughout the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. In 1967, he earned an English degree at the University of Maryland and was drafted a week before graduation.
Commissioned from Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, Dick commanded troops in the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Meade, Maryland. Later, trained in special warfare, he commanded a light-infantry advisory team in southern I Corps, South Vietnam. He left the Army as a captain, awarded the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal.
Dick's newspaper work, from 1971-2006 in West Virginia, Florida, New Jersey and Texas included reporting on government, criminal justice, and science, technology and medicine, for which he won awards from the Associated Press, Cox Newspapers, and the American Lung Association among others. He is the author of the short-story collection "Leaving The Alamo: Texas Stories After Vietnam" and the historical novel "Knoxville, 1863," both published by Cavalry Scout Books. Both are now available in multiple e-book formats at Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/12929