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"Cherish America"

(Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness)

By Robert B Charles | Published: September 1, 2024

AMAC'S ANALYSIS

This book is one of a kind, a treasure of carefully researched, personally experienced, beautifully recounted stories, each true and riveting. Some will take your breath away, others just make you look out the window and think. Together, they remind us of America’s nobility, and the hero within. Like an impressionistic painting, the author creates a picture from slices of well-lived lives. Some you know, others are new. Each rose when needed, and showed strength they did not know they had. If you want to see goodness in motion, reset your faith in humanity, this book will do it. If you want to remember where hidden strength lives, what triumph of heart when all seems lost looks like, you will get that. Some of these stories are historically significant, all worth telling. They are tied together by the author’s life, some overdue, others just compelling. So, if you like suspense, those who dare, unexpected outcomes – want to know what happens when everything rides on getting it right, how impossible things actually happen, this is your book. Enjoy every page!

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MEET THE AUTHOR

Robert B Charles

Robert "Bobby" Charles grew up in Wayne, Maine. After a rural childhood punctuated by woodland adventures, tutelage by aging veterans, and graduation from the local high school, he graduated from Dartmouth College (AB), Oxford University (MA, PPE), and Columbia University Law School (JD). Professionally, he has served in the judicial, legislative, and executive branches, clerked on the US Court of Appeals, 9th Cir., privately litigated, taught, and now runs a small company focused on national security. A ten-year naval intelligence officer (USNR), he volunteered for active duty on 9/11/01. In 2003, he was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate, becoming Assistant Secretary of State, under Colin Powell. In that capacity, he managed a two-billion dollar budget, State's airwing, set up the Iraqi and Afghan police training programs, and managed global security programs in 70 countries, from Colombia to Kosovo. He is also AMAC's (The Association of Mature American Citizens) national spokesperson. In 2018, he published "Eagles and Evergreens," about growing up in Maine under the influence of World War II veterans. Today, he lives and writes on the lake he fished as a child, bald eagles in his treetops, days full, nights cool, forever grateful.

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
  • 1. Faith and prayer seem to play a significant, understated in some cases, role in the outcome of these heroic stories. Is that a coincidence, or in your view part of what gives these people the strength to do what they do? How do you see faith at work in America today? Did the role of faith in these stories surprise you?
  • 2. What qualities of these people, in any story or perhaps a few, strike you as the most important? How did these people summon the strength required, in your view?
  • 3. How do you think we are – each of us – best able to teach the special qualities Charles suggests we should all “cherish” in America and in our fellow Americans?
  • 4. Do you agree with Charles that there is something special, unique, and uniquely worth preserving about the American spirit? Are we losing it? Can we retain it?
  • 5. The author, AMAC’s spokesman Robert B. Charles, took six years to write this book – and goes around the country now speaking about these values. He says that he feels a “hunger” in the country to learn, remember, and restore the kinds of values that these people bring to life. In your life and community, do you hear or feel that “hunger?”
  • 6. Do you believe, as the author seems to, that we all have a hero inside us, that we are naturally other-regarding, and that Americans are about helping others?
  • 7. Did this book teach you something you did not know about Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, the Bushes, Colin Powell, Buzz Aldrin, or the other Apollo astronauts?
  • 8. Charles mentions, directly and indirectly that many of these values are taught by our parents and grandparents. How early should stories like these be shared with younger Americans, and do you think that stories are the best way – our own and those of others – to teach what will preserve this republic for the future?
  • 9. Do you have someone in your life who taught you some of these values, and if so, why do you think you remember them now?
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Rob citizenship
Rob citizenship
1 year ago

Just thinking about the qualities of courage, character and kindness can be uplifting to the spirit. People who value living properly ,who realize that there are responsibilities to take into account and have Faith in God will cherish the ideals that give a sense of purpose to life. Respect for the principles that hold the Nation together, doing what is encouraging for mind and spirit, developing intelligence, and practicing resourcefulness helps to build a strong foundation and trust in the idea of Independence .

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Karen Leavitt
Karen Leavitt
1 year ago

Watched the interview with Bobby Charles on RAV/Frank Gaffney, great interview and I decided I had to obtain this book, then decided to get extra copies for some of my children. I am excited to get the book and start reading some of these inspirational stories from great Americans!

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