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 – A Friend
- A Brother to A Brother
- A Brother’s Keeper
- A Common Blessing
- A Day To Remember
- A Grunt’s Daughter
- A Moment, Sir?
- A Moment’s Passing
- A Restless Night
- A Softness
- A Soldier’s Thoughts
- A Time to Eat
- A Woman’s Child
- A Wounded Nation
- Acquitted
- Acts Of Class
- aka Tony
- All Too Well
- Always Valiant
- Amid The Storm, Beauty
- Amid the Wire
- An Affair
- Angels Linger
- Anger’s Edge
- Anger’s Price
- Are You The Enemy?
- Arlington (and others)
- Armed Forces Day
- Amour-Propre
- As In The Still Of The Night
- Awakenings
- Bare Poles
- Bloodied Hands
- Breaths Of War
- Bridesmaid
- Bright Eyes and Passages
- Broken Dolls
- Broken Spokes
- Brother Fighting Brother
- Brother’s Blood
- Brothers Grown
- Brushed By Cold
- Burdens
- Burning Ashes
- Cadences in Blue
- Called to Serve
- Can It Ever Be Over
- Can You See
- Captivity
- Carefully at Risk
- Casting Shadows
- Chaotic Rumbles
- Children
- Choices
- Clarion
- Cleansing
- Clouds
- Coarse Thoughts
- Coming Home
- Coming The Tanks
- Critical Passes
- Day is Done
- Dead Ears
- Deaths Sacrificed
- Deep Drifting
- Deepening Danger
- Demented Enemies
- Difficult Times
- Distances Traveled
- Distant Trumpets
- Dougie Dug
- Drapes the Flag
- Each Fought Well
- Each Other
- Echoed Cries
- Empty Shells
- Empty Shrouds
- Energy
- Entangled
- Entwining
- Ever To…
- Ever to Wonder
- Evidences
- Expectations
- Expendable
- Expendable
- Extreme Passion
- Extremes: USS Liberty Remembered
- Eyes of Nothing
- Facing Sure Death
- Fading Screams
- Falling Glass
- Fare-Thee-Well
- Feeble Words
- Feeding Frenzy
- Feelings
- Finger Painting
- Fire Free
- Firing Errantly
- Flags
- Flags Of Color
- Flags of Many Nations
- Flags of Worth
- Flames and Dreams
- Flaming Eyeballs
- Flowing as Threads
- Flying Flags
- Follywood’s Stolen Honor
- Foot By Foot
- Foot By Foot
- Footsteps Growing Faint
- Forget-Me-Nots
- Forgetting
- Freedom… Isn’t Free
- Friend and Brothers/Sisters Remember
- Frostbite
- Full Circle
- Gatherings
- Generations
- Gently Awash
- Ghost Sails
- Gifts of Stone
- Given Choices
- Glory Or Atrocity
- Going Back Even Further
- Gone Missing
- Granting Hope
- Ground Cover
- Hallowed
- Haunted Eyes
- Haunted Eyes
- Having Traveled
- He Was A Soldier
- Hearing Echoes
- Heights of Imagination
- Heroes Of Heart
- “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
- In Vain?
- Innocent Values
- Into the Dawn
- Into the Fight
- Into the Fire
- Leave None Behind
- Lest We Dare
- Lest We Fail to Remember
- Let Me Fight With You
- Lights in Tunnels
- Lilacs
- Lingering
- Little Blood Shed
- Little Known
- Loneliness
- Lonely Thoughts
- Long And Arduous
- Long Past
- Looting
- Loving Ones Enemies
- Magor-missabib
- Many Nations
- Memorial Day: May 30, 1868
- Mending
- More Important Things
- Mother’s Lament
- Motions
- My Father (A Daughter’s Tribute)
- My Reason
- Mystic Winds
- Needles and Threads
- Never to Learn
- Night Chimes
- No Arms
- No Fuse – Or Short Fuse
- No More Bridges
- No Pleasantness
- No Words Need Be Said
- None Are Unknown
- None to Let In
- Not Like The Movies
- Oaths, Shields, and Armor
- Often Thought – Tears Flow
- Old Tanks
- Once Long Ago
- One Last Journey
- One Red Stain
- Opportunity’s Targets
- Oriflamme
- Our Nation And Our Flag
- Painful Honor To Remember
- Painting a Yellow Rose
- Pass It Along
- Passing on a Memory
- Passing The Torch
- Patches of…
- Pending
- Perchance A Dream
- Pillboxes
- Pissing On The Dead
- Please
- Poem of Kosovo
- Pondering Life
- Ponderings
- Precious Cargo
- Preparation
- Prices Paid
- Rain and Storms
- Raised Above
- Reconciliations
- Recovery Reinvented
- Red With Blood
- Reflections
- Reflections of Deep
- Reflective Drums
- Remember the Drummers
- Remembrance
- Reminders
- Renewal
- Restless Waves
- 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
- Shallow Graves
- Shared By The Free World
- Shills
- Shot And Shell
- Silence In Combat
- Silhouettes
- So Many Tears
- So Young
- Sombering
- Some Gave All
- Sometimes
- Sound of History
- Special Friends
- Spraying Bridges
- Standing Next
- Standing On
- Such a Day
- Such Storms
- Summer Sands
- Swallowing Water
- Targets
- Targets Of Opportunity
- Tears Alone
- Tears and Flags
- Tears and Sighs
- Tears Reflected
- Tenderly
- Tetanus
- The Conflicts of Men
- The Day
- The Day After
- The Day Of The Beginning
- The Heaviness
- The High Price
- The Home Guard
- The Last Piece Of Glass
- The Leaf
- The Past
- The Price Paid
- The Selfish Whiner
- The Shoulder
- The Silken Thread
- The Soldier
- The Tomb (Of An Unknown Friend)
- The Veteran
- The Wimp Factor
- Their Loneliness
- There Is No Night
- There is No Yesterday’s Wind
- There Was A Tall Building
- Thinking It Over
- Thoughts To Express
- To Be Left Alone
- To Nowhere To Be Found…
- To Stand Patrol
- Torn Flags
- Tornadoes
- Touching Back
- Tours
- Transcending Fatigue
- Trauma
- Treason
- Trials Of Fire
- Trumpeting
- Twisting Fingers
- Unable To Find
- Understand It
- Understood
- Unfailing To Remember
- Unforgotten
- Unfunded Liabilities
- Unfurled
- Unseen Glory
- USS Cony – Unsung
- Valley Of Decision
- Vanquished
- Velvet
- Video Games Live
- Vietnam – Battle of the Soul
- Violence
- Visions Gentle
- Visiting Souls
- Walking Blind
- War’s Moments
- Wars Of Attrition Today
- Was it Yesterday?
- We Are Americans!
- We Huddle
- Weeping Eyes
- Well Cared
- When You Wave Me
- Where Are You – Audie?
- Where Were You?
- Whispers of Lies
- Whistling Shells
- Who Forget – Will Not Remember
- Widow’s Walk
- Winters Without Summers
- Wishing For
- With Honor
- Withering Fire
- Within the Darkness
- Within the Windows
- Without Friends
- Without Order
- Working Back
- Wounded