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Roger Stark

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The grand experience of life.

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I am, by my own admission, a reluctant writer. But there are stories that demand to to be told. When we hear them, we must pick up our pen, lest we forget and the stories be lost.

Six years ago, in a quiet conversation with my friend Marvin, I learned the tragic story his father, a WW2 B-29 Airplane Commander, shot down over Nagoya, Japan just months before the end of the war.

Bill Clinton has famously said: "They were the fathers we never knew, the uncles we never met, the friends who never returned, the heroes we can never repay. They gave us our world. And those simple sounds of freedom we hear today are their voices speaking to us across the years."

Such a man was Marv’s father. A father he never knew. The telling of the story that evening
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Roger Stark I am working on a new project that surprises even me. I have never assigned the title of "writer" to myself. Yes, I have written and published 2 books…moreI am working on a new project that surprises even me. I have never assigned the title of "writer" to myself. Yes, I have written and published 2 books, but they were about Recovery and really a digest of what I learned in my own Recovery process.
"They Called Him Marvin" is the story of a friend that is so remarkable that I felt the world needed to hear it. With his permission I began researching and writing. Dean Sherman enlisted in the US Army a year before Pearl Harbor. When a buddy took him to church in Salt Lake City he fell in love with a beautiful 15 year old named Connie. 3 years later, he had become a B-29 pilot and they were married. They had less than 2 years together before he shipped overseas. During that time Marvin was conceived.
Lt. Sherman's assignments took him from India to the Marianas as part of the Air Corps efforts to bomb Japan. He was a faithful letter writer and 50 of his letters home have been preserved as well as 20 of Connie's letters to him. The letters themselves tell some of the story.
When Dean was shot down over Nagoya on 14 May 1945 he was captured. B-29ers were not assigned the status of POW by the Japanese but declared War Criminals because the indiscriminate fire bombing of urban areas. Given a sham trial, Dean and 10 other airmen were beheaded in July 1945, just a month before the war ended.
It is a sacrifice worthy of our rememberance.(less)
Roger Stark Standing in front of a friends fireplace listening to his families' story.…moreStanding in front of a friends fireplace listening to his families' story.(less)
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Self Doubt

I very much appreciate this chance to share some things with you. What I want to talk about is rather personal but it is something many of us, writers and non writers deal with. It sometimes cripples us and stops us from accomplishing what we wish to accomplish or even what we should accomplish.

The subject is Self Doubt.

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“Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation.”
Roger Stark, The Waterfall Concept: A Blueprint for Addiction Recovery

“When the sum of our faith and humility is sufficient, it reaches a type of spiritual critical mass and hope is fostered and grows. A willing heart emerges which generates the ability for us to submit to the process of recovery.”
Roger Stark, The Waterfall Concept: A Blueprint for Addiction Recovery

“The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds.”
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