In 1967, I enlisted in the Army, and after training as a medic I spent a year in Vietnam. My memoir, "Walk Through the Valley: the Spiritual Journey of a Vietnam War Medic" is both a realistic war story and an exploration of what was for me a spiritual journey. In my collection of short stories, "The Hardest Part: Homecoming Stories from the Vietnam War," I use fiction to reflect on the experience of coming home. In "Walk Together Earth Mother Children," I let my imagination carry me decades into the future to explore how a young man dealt with the challenges of traveling into space and learning to communicate with a strange alien species. Closer to our time, by the 2040s social media and artificial intelligence had created a powerful new communications tool. In "Lost Persona," new attorney Ryan Woodard has to deal with its implications in his first big case. It is my hope that you will find these books to be thought-provoking. Thank you for reading! Bruce I. McDaniel