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the Literary Expression of Battlefield Touchstones
ISSN 1542-1546 Volume 02 Number 01 Winter ©Jan 2004



Steel and Gold






by Kelly Allen Vinal
... who is an Army Chief Warrant Officer on active duty; and whose poetry has been published in periodicals and books, including Vision: Behind My Eyes (1983), Nefarious Pandemonium (1986), Still Life (1989), Discipline of Steel (1992), Party of One (2000), and Vapours of Promise (2004). CW3 Vinal is also the author of The Extracted MBA (2000) and Turbomanager (2004); and is a former adjunct professor of management sciences at Campbell University.