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Autobiographical

Colonel John McKay’s Churchill-inspired life story
3 Jan 2015

Colonel John McKay’s Churchill-inspired life story

by Col. John C. McKay | posted in: Articles, Autobiographical | 1

Colonel John C. McKay, (United States Marine Corps, retired) lives today in Sacramento, California. He is a Churchillian of long standing, having read Churchill’s joyous book My Early Life (A Roving Commission in the USA) in the early 1950s when … Continued

About Col. John C. McKay USMC (Ret.)

Col. John C. McKay USMC (Ret.), is an adjunct professor, California State University, Sacramento, and Olmsted Scholar (Spain). He served two combat tours in Vietnam, and was twice wounded. He saw duty during the summer of 1967 aboard a PCF, or “Swift Boat,” operating out of Vũng Táo, Vietnam. He is currently working on his memoirs.

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