08-11-2015, 06:20 PM
Alan Ford Wrote:Hear! hear, Mr. McBride, two thumbs up! What a journey! It's remarkable stories of courage like yours and a great many others in this lifetime that inspire and encourage others. Best wishes!
Alan, I appreciate your good words and am grateful to you for writing them. As I write more
in the memoir form (as I also did with INTO THE NIGHTMARE), I find a heartening paradox
to be true, that the more personal the writing, the more people you touch with it because they
can see their experiences reflected in yours. Sharing trauma and other personal subjects candidly and in detail
helps people relate to their own. I have had many reactions to INTO THE NIGHTMARE
like this, since we've all gone through the grieving process over the assassination (I still
am doing so, as probably most of us here are), and I'm already getting similar reactions
to THE BROKEN PLACES, since we all went through some kind of hell in our teenage
years. What Nietszche wrote applies to both kinds of experience: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."