Robert R. Martindale, Adeline Martindale, Martin/Martin
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The characters in this story are thrust into a primitive situation and progress to a fully developed modern day society to illust
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rate the development of a government's power. For the purpose of illustration the principal characters are idealized and the bad characters are very bad. It is a story of love, a fight for survival, trials and tribulation. The main characters are a military officer and his family and a farmer talented in leadership. The setting in the opening chapter is the outskirts of Washington, D. C. Later it changes to a fertile farming valley in western Maryland and later at the seat of the United States Government in Baltimore Maryland.
About the Author
Bob and Addie Martindale have been married since June 9 1943. He was a Lieutenant in the Army Air Corp. at Davis Monthan Army Air Base in Tucson, Arizona. She was working with a Naval Intelligence unit in down town Tucson, while attending her senior year at the University of Arizona. They have had varied careers during fifty years six years ofmarried life.
They have spent time in Alaska and the Philippines. They traveled in South Korea, India, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, and Guam while he was in the United States Air Force. After that they traveled throughout Europe, England, Russia, Greece, Central and South America, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Hawaii , and every state in the United States and many of the provinces in Canada. After twenty six years in the United States Air Force, Bob retired in the grade of Colonel to take a position in the University of Texas as the Administrative Director of the Marine Biomedical Institute in Galveston, Texas. After ten years he retired again. He and Addie sailed their thirty two foot sail boat on a nine month cruise from Galveston through the Florida Keys to the Bahamas and back to St. Petersburg, Florida They returned to live in St. Petersburg, on Coquina Key. They have a thirty four foot diesel trawler docked on a canal in their back yard just off Tampa Bay. They cruise on the Florida west coast and the Keys occasionally. They have written several pieces together But this is their first attempt to put their work in book form.
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