| Hello, my name is John E. (Ted ) MacNintch!
Home town: Old Saybrook CT
| MORE ABOUT ME...
I joined this wiki because: I had a father and four uncles in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, one of which was a sniper in the 31st
and all sons of a Baptist Minister. One of my uncles, Gunner Henry Ward B. Steeves, was killed in the war as a result of shrapnel wounds. I thoroughly researched what it must have been like for them "over there", including what it meant to be a sniper and what it meant to be a piper/stretcher-bearer battling with the juxtaposion of God and war.
The best word to describe me is: Author of "The Brother Keepers: the Great War Odyssey of Sable MacInnes and his Brothers," a creative non fiction Michener-type historical novel of snipers and bagpipers in the CEF, the result of ten years of researching and writing about what they must have experienced in World War I and available from my website www.thebrotherkeepers.com but not in stores.
Interests: Writing, military history, CEF, snipers, bagpipers, the juxtaposition of God and War, WWI shock troops, the Ross rifle, General Sir Arthur Currie, historical biases, General Sir Julian Byng , General Pershing and his tactics.
Favorite Movies:
Gallipoli, Saving Private Ryan, Once a Time in the West, Deliverance, Lonesome Dove.
Favorite TV shows: News, PBS specials, movies
My hero(es): My uncle Sable, General Sir Arthur Currie. Fareed Zacharia.
My superpower is: creative non fiction
If I could live anywhere, it would be: Where I am: Connecticut and Thousand Islands, in Upstate New York, and possibly in Key Largo part of the year.
My dream job(s): To be an acclaimed author who moves the reader emotionally, provides gripping narratives and educates the reader simultaneously while also instilling humor as comic relief.
What else you should know about me: I am a dual citizen who was born in Moncton, New Brunswick Canada. I have a Ph.D. in medical biochemistry from Purdue University, and I worked for 30 years for Bristol-Myers where I became Director of Scientific Information, involved in administration, scientific current awareness, literature searching and writing scientific position papers for research planning purposes. There I learned the craft of writing and researching. I believe in "Si vis pacem para bellum" - if you want peace, prepare for war, and I believe in "Nemo me impune lacessit," - no one provokes me with impunity," the latter being the motto of many of the Highland regiments, both mottos in the interests of peace and not war-mongering.
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