Charles J. Ingerson
“Chuck”

Joyce and Chuck Ingerson
with their granddaughterAlso 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, he 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 Club Writings
- A Contrite Heart
- A Good Friend
- A Greater Love
- A Little Rain
- A Thousand Words
- Already Lost
- As Rustled Feathers
- Captivity
- Casting Off
- Chalices
- Chaotic Goals
- Chattering
- Chills
- Computer Time
- Contention Bad
- Contrite
- Contumacious
- Cutting The Throat
- Did I See Them
- Discussions of Intensity
- Do You See Me?
- Dreaming
- Dregs of a Bitter Cup
- Drifting Away
- Dwarfed
- Families are Forever
- Faster Than
- Felicity (36th Wedding Anniversary)
- Few Seek Repentance
- Finding More
- Fires Which Burn
- Flames of Forever
- Flash-Bang!
- Flurries
- Found in Rare Places
- Freeing the Bonded
- I Didn’t Get to Say…
- I Sob
- If All Else
- Immovable
- Impenitent
- In Light, Affliction
- In Love’s Breath
- In the Heavens
- In Time
- Indescribable
- Individual Moments of Beauty
- Ingrained
- Insane Curve
- Intensity
- Mass Graves
- Mental Laziness
- Mental Shortness Of Breath
- Misadventures
- Missing
- Missing In History
- Moments to Remember
- More Friends
- Multiples
- Of Greater Concern
- Of the World (Four Sins)
- Of Words Forever
- One Is Special
- One Nation (Under God)
- Only Tomorrow
- Open Wounds
- Our Little Rose
- Rain and Flowers
- Rebirth
- Red Roses
- Redound
- Reflecting Quiet
- Relentless
- Remembering
- Renderest To All
- Restive
- Returning
- Saddened Tears
- Sailing Deserts
- Searching
- Selective PTSD
- Shadows of Glory
- Sharing of Prayers
- Shattering Glasses
- Should There Come A Storm
- Shoulders
- Silenced
- Silent Time
- Similar Minds
- Sliding Uphill
- Slivers Of Light
- Snow Fun
- So Many Whispers
- So Thin
- Softly Touching
- Something Sacred
- Something Special
- Special Flowers
- Spirals
- Steps to Heaven
- Still As A Stone
- Stocking Stuffers
- Strength Of Stones
- Stymied
- Survival
- Tangled Brain Waves
- Temporary
- Thank You!
- That We Might Live (The Atonement)
- The Christmas Gift
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Gift Of Discernment
- The Old Man
- The Sabbath Day To Honor
- The Sacred Calling
- The Savior
- The Touch of a Muse
- There Is…
- This Heavy Heart
- Thou Art
- Though I Walk
- Time To Grow
- Tis A Year Round Season
- Tithing Settlement
- To Be A Majority
- To Be Family
- To Give Or Take
- To Know The Truth
- To One And All
- To Trace
- Transiting
- Trusting None
- Warriors
- Weaving Cloth
- What I Know (to be true)
- What Others Can’t See
- What Is Coming
- When One Remembers
- Where is Thy Salt?
- Which Way?
- With a Tear
- With Blessings Like This
- With Determination
- Whitherest Away
- Wistful Of Thoughts
- Within from Without
- Within Wonder
- Without Knowing
- Wonderfulness of Christmas
- Words to Weave