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Bob Green
Meet the Author of Okinawa Odyssey on January 18
The Friends of the Cross Plains Library invite everyone to meet author Bob Green on Tuesday, January 18, at 7:00 PM at the Cross Plains Community Center. With the 60th anniversary of the Battle for Okinawa coming this April, now is a great time for remembering that horrendous campaign as recounted by Mr. Green, then a 20-year-old Second Lieutenant of the 763rd Tank Battalion attached to the 96th Infantry Division.
The invasion, launched on April Fool’s Day/Easter Sunday, 1945, began the last major battle of World War II, fought as the war in Europe ended and President Roosevelt died. Three months later, the Okinawa arena was declared secure, at sobering sacrifice by the 1st, 2nd, and 6th Marine Divisions and the 96th, 7th, 77th, and 27th Army Divisions under the command of General Simon Bolivar Buckner, and by the Pacific Fleet commanded by Admiral “Bull” Halsey.
Recipient of the Silver Star and two Bronze Stars for his service in the Pacific Theatre of Operation, Lt. Green saw action in the invasions of both Leyte and Okinawa. Okinawa Odyssey (Bright Sky Press), his personal accounting of the war, makes one feel as if it happened yesterday. Through Green’s gentle, but wry sense of humor, the stark realities of war are offset by the naïveté of the young Texas cowboy.
A noted Texas historian and entertaining story teller, Mr. Green was born and raised on the Green Ranch, northwest of Breckenridge, Texas, where his pioneer father first settled in 1881. He and his wife still live on the Green Ranch, where they raised three children and now enjoy their six grandchildren. Mr. Green serves on the Board of Overseers of the Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and for twenty-seven years, was the male narrator for Albany’s Fort Griffin Fandangle.
Be sure to join us on Tuesday, January 18, 7:00 PM, at the Community Center in Cross Plains. There is no charge to attend, and light refreshments will be served after Mr. Green speaks. Copies of Okinawa Odyssey will be available for purchase, and after Mr. Green will be happy to sign them and visit with you.
You may call the Cross Plains Public Library at 254-725-7722 for more information, or directions to the Community Center.