CHARLES J. INGERSON
“Chuck”
- 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
- 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
- Demented Enemies
- Distant Trumpets
- Distorted Memories
- Drapes the Flag
- Echoed Cries
- Empty Shells
- Empty Shrouds
- Entangled
- Entwining
- Ever To...
- Ever to Wonder
- Evidences
- Expectations
- Expendable
- Extreme Passion
- Extremes
- Eyes of Nothing
- Fading Screams
- Falling Glass
- Fare-Thee-Well
- Feeding Frenzy
- 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 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
- Reconciliation's
- 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
- 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 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
- Tours
- Transcending Fatigue
- Treason
- Trumpeting
- Twisting Fingers
- Walking Blind
- War's Moments
- Was it Yesterday?
- We Huddle
- Weeping Eyes
- Well Cared
- When You Wave Me
- Whispers of Lies
- Whistling Shells
- Widow's Walk
- Winters Without Summers
- Wishing For
- Withering Fire
- Within the Darkness
- Within the Windows
- Wounded
Also known as ORK (Old Rusty Knight) and cji
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 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 Viet Nam Veteran's Clubs in the United States in 1967, in Rochester, NY and a second in Oneonta, NY.
Chuck has been writing for 40+ years
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