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F. Scott Service

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Scott or as his friends call him, Scotty, lives in New England.

Having earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional/Technical Communication and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, he has had experience with editing, journalism, desktop publishing, videography, and is an award-winning, full-time author.

His books have won Readers' Favorite Five-Star Awards and have been featured in Publishers Weekly magazine, as well as others. Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq won in the 2022 Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Adult Nonfiction and was awarded the Pacific Book Review Star for a Memoir of Excellent Merit. Playing Soldier won the 2021 IndieReader Discovery Award for Memoir. It also placed Finalist in th
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Average rating: 4.68 · 28 ratings · 14 reviews · 2 distinct works
Lines in the Sand: An Ameri...

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Dispatches by Michael Herr
Normally speaking, I hear about books from a variety of sources. And it's mostly informal. Sometimes, it's from a friend, that standard dinner table suggestion over a glass of wine or what not that is usually along the lines of, “Oh, you should check that book out. I really liked it.” Other times, it's from a review I happen to randomly come across, or a newspaper's snappy one-liner, tight and Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 30, 2017 14:03 Tags: iraq, vietnam, war
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“I am a new universe beginning to expand.”
F. Scott Service

“Our very lives are a sum of moments.”
Scott Service, Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq

“The gift of life. Why do we complain so much when, we've been given so much?”
Scott Service, Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq

“Our very lives are a sum of moments.”
Scott Service, Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq

“I am a new universe beginning to expand.”
F. Scott Service

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
Bob Marley

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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