Charles J. Ingerson
“Chuck”
Also known as ORK (Old Rusty Knight) and cji, Chuck has been writing for 40+ years
Chuck joined US Navy at age 17 in 1962 and spent 14 months in Far East followed by 12 months in Africa. He then joined the Army in 1975-1985 and served as a Senior Instructor in the following MOS’s 11B5H, 12B5H, 54E5H, MOLC and BTMS. In addition Chuck taught Junior, Advanced and Senior NCO courses.
A Life Member Veteran’s of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, AMVETS, Chuck started one of the first Vietnam Veteran’s Clubs in the United States in 1967, in Rochester, NY and a second in Oneonta, NY.
Index of Writings
- A Brother to A Brother
- A Common Blessing
- A Grunt’s Daughter
- A Moment, Sir?
- A Moment’s Passing
- A Softness
- A Soldier’s Thoughts
- A Time to Eat
- A Woman’s Child
- A Wounded Nation
- Acquitted
- Always Valiant
- Amid the Wire
- An Affair
- Angels Linger
- Anger’s Edge
- Anger’s Price
- Arlington (and others)
- Armed Forces Day
- Awakenings
- Cadences in Blue
- Called to Serve
- Captivity
- Carefully at Risk
- Casting Shadows
- Children
- Choices
- Clarion
- Cleansing
- Critical Passes
- Day is Done
- Dead Ears
- Deep Drifting
- Deepening Danger
- Demented Enemies
- Distant Trumpets
- Drapes the Flag
- Each Other
- Echoed Cries
- Empty Shells
- Empty Shrouds
- Entangled
- Entwining
- Ever To…
- Ever to Wonder
- Evidences
- Expectations
- Expendable
- Extreme Passion
- Extremes: USS Liberty Remembered
- Eyes of Nothing
- Fading Screams
- Falling Glass
- Fare-Thee-Well
- Feeding Frenzy
- Feelings
- Finger Painting
- Fire Free
- Flags
- Flags of Many Nations
- Flags of Worth
- Flames and Dreams
- Flaming Eyeballs
- Flowing as Threads
- Flying Flags
- Forget-Me-Nots
- Freedom… Isn’t Free
- Friend and Brothers/Sisters Remember
- Frostbite
- Full Circle
- Hallowed
- Heights of Imagination
- “Hi My Friend…
- History Continues
- Home in Hell
- How Close
- How Many Times
- I Couldn’t See
- I Went, Didn’t Come Back
- In My Heart
- In Prayer
- In Rows
- In Solemn Honor
- In the Darkness
- In Tune
- Innocent Values
- Into the Dawn
- Into the Fight
- Into the Fire
- Leave None Behind
- Lest We Dare
- Lights in Tunnels
- Lilacs
- Lingering
- Little Known
- Loneliness
- Lonely Thoughts
- Long Past
- Loving Ones Enemies
- Oaths, Shields, and Armor
- Old Tanks
- Once Long Ago
- One Last Journey
- One Red Stain
- Opportunity’s Targets
- Rain and Storms
- Reconciliations
- Reflections of Deep
- Remember the Drummers
- Remembrance
- Renewal
- Returning Again
- Ripping Skirts
- Roads of War
- Rumbles and Valleys
- Running in the Rain
- Screams
- Seeking Peace
- Seeming Invisible
- Selected
- Semblances of Silence
- Senseless Sound
- Severed
- Shadows and Lonely Things
- Shadows Observing
- Shadows of Glory
- Shills
- Silhouettes
- So Many Tears
- Sombering
- Some Gave All
- Sometimes
- Sound of History
- Special Friends
- Standing Next
- Standing On
- Such a Day
- Such Storms
- Summer Sands
- Tears and Flags
- Tears and Sighs
- Tears Reflected
- Tenderly
- Tetanus
- The Conflicts of Men
- The Heaviness
- The High Price
- The Home Guard
- The Leaf
- The Past
- The Selfish Whiner
- The Silken Thread
- The Soldier
- The Tomb
- Their Loneliness
- There is No Yesterday’s Wind
- To Be Left Alone
- To No Where To Be Found…
- Torn Flags
- Tornadoes
- Touching Back
- Tours
- Transcending Fatigue
- Trauma
- Treason
- Trumpeting
- Twisting Fingers