About the Author
JERRY D. JACKSON was brought into this world in the small country town of Elizabethtown, NC, on 16 August 1946. He graduated from high school in June of 1965, got married, fathered a child, went on active military duty, completed two specialized schools, and served a year in Vietnam, all before his twenty-first birthday. Later, he completed a two-year class through George Washington University, finishing second in his class, and in 1976, he graduated from the Coast Guard Officer Candidate School located in historic Yorktown, Virginia, and went on to complete over twenty-three years of service defending his country with pride. Jerry and his late wife started a furniture business in Mt. Juliet, TN., in 1986. This decorated veteran of the United States Coast Guard retired from active military service with the rank of Lieutenant (03), and retired in September of 1986. All of his childhood experiences, growing up in the country, and his many experiences during and after his military service contributed greatly to the poems found in this book. Mr. Jackson continues to write and is a Deacon at a church he attends every Sunday..