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Dennis W. Lid

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in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

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Dennis W. Lid

Dennis W. Lid was born in Ohio and raised in Northern California. He is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara as an English Major. Mr. Lid served his country for over 20 years in the U.S. Army Infantry, Airborne and Special Forces, and then honorably retired from active duty as a Major in 1980. Dennis continued to serve his country as a Department of Defense Civil Servant for 19 years before retiring again in 1999 as a GS-12, Military Plans Specialist.

Mr. Lid’s family is comprised of his wife, Bi Yu, and his four adult children: Daniel, Amy, Charles and Debora. All reside in the Western United States; all are world travelers. Mr. and Mrs. Lid are comfortably retired in La Quinta, California.

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Dennis W. Lid

Dennis W. Lid was born in Ohio and raised in Northern California. He is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara as an English Major. Mr. Lid served his country for over 20 years in the U.S. Army Infantry, Airborne and Special Forces, and then honorably retired from active duty as a Major in 1980. Dennis continued to serve his country as a Department of Defense Civil Servant for 19 years before retiring again in 1999 as a GS-12, Military Plans Specialist.

Mr. Lid’s family is comprised of his wife, Bi Yu, and his four adult children: Daniel, Amy, Charles and Debora. All reside in the Western United States; all are world travelers. Mr. and Mrs. Lid are comfortably retired in La Quinta, California.

Most of Mr. Lid’s civil service time was spent overseas in Japan and Europe. He and his family arrived at Headquarters, United States Army Japan (USARJ) on 12 August 1981, where he joined the Resource Management Division for a few years as a Management Analyst. In 1985, he switched to G3 Exercise Division as a GS-11, Exercise Plans Specialist to develop a cold weather exercise named North Wind. Mr. Lid was promoted to GS-12 and transferred to G3 Exercise Support Division in 1986 to continue work as an exercise planner on Yama Sakura Command Post and four other field training exercises. Primary emphasis was placed on developing and maintaining the Five Year Overseas Deployment Training Plan and the Five Year Exercise Schedule to resource all USARJ military exercises. Secondary emphasis was placed on ancillary efforts such as the Bilateral Training Study Panel with the Japan Self-Defense Forces, USARJ Exercise Briefings, and recurring reports.

In January, 1987, Mr. Lid was given an assignment, a permanent change of station (PCS), to Kaiserslautern, Germany as a GS-12, Management Analyst developing concept plans for the
21st Support Command. He completed the assignment in one year and returned (PCS) to Japan on 2 December 1987 as a GS-12, Exercise and Military Plans Specialist in G3 Exercise Division.

Mr. Lid’s final PCS before retirement was to Fort McPherson, Georgia on 3 January 1999 as a Military Plans Specialist for the U.S. Army Reserve Command, G1, Personnel Division.

Civil service retirement occurred on 30 September 1999, after which the Lid family moved to Southern California. Mr. Lid is actually semi-retired. He works part-time at College of the Desert, Eastern Valley Academic Skills Center as an Instructional Support Assistant in the writing, reading, language, math and computer laboratory. His website URL is http://www.dennislid.com, and the email address is dennislid@dennislid.com.
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	First to Last: The Tale of a Biker it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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Sep 27, 2015 01:22PM

Dear Catherine,

Thank you for the free book offer and the other information you provided - much appreciate. Hope life is treating you well. Let's continue to be friends on Goodreads.

Take care,

Dennis Lid

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