Eager to prove myself and succumbing to flattery, I became a blogger with David Horowitz' NewsRealBlog. The entire story is not that complicated. I knew David Swindle from Twitter and was following him because he is an editor for David Horowitz. One day I received an email from Swindle, with an offer.

The other night I watched NBC Nightly News and was terribly shocked by Brian Williams' story about military suicides. I thought about my Twitter friend Ken Jones, known as @akvet who is a fellow author. He has free ebooks for our troops and veterans. His Twitter bio says: Life After Combat and When Our Troops Come Home. He boldly and honestly speaks of his own experiences and trauma and is a dedicated warrior in the fight to help our veterans transition to civilian life. 


I couldn't stop thinking about the military suicides and therefore sent Ken a tweet asking him about the situation. Here is part of our conversation...

When I was a kid, assimilation was what I wanted. It was also what my mother wanted for us. But I think that the reasons were different from today. Our reason was fear. My mother is an Auschwitz survivor and she didn't want us to suffer the same fate as she and her family suffered. In fact, she purposely did not teach us any of the five languages besides English that she can speak. She didn't want us to have any trace of a foreign accent. We were warned to "fit in." I didn't want to look Jewish, and wished for straighter hair and a smaller nose. Eventually I grew up and realized that being Jewish is so much a part of me that it cannot be 'assimilated.'

I proudly present my fourth interview with David Appletree, who I've had the pleasure of knowing for one year.