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Wendell Affield

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography

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March 2012

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It’s one thing to write a book; it’s another to live it.

Wendell Affield never knew his father. His childhood was punctuated by a volatile mother and an unpredictable stepfather. At twelve he and his siblings were placed in foster homes, his mother committed to a mental hospital. At sixteen he rode the rails out west and lived in hobo camps. At seventeen he enlisted in the navy. At twenty, he was wounded in an ambush while driving a river patrol boat in Vietnam and medevaced home.

Affield retired from the food industry in 2001. He attended Bemidji State University (BSU) to learn the writing craft. His Vietnam “memory stories” evolved into a memoir, Muddy Jungle Rivers, which won the Minnesota Veterans Voices award in 2017. The memoir has ope ...more

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DEBT FORGIVENESS: A PATHWAY TO CUT RECIDIVISM

15 November 2023
Governor Walz:

On October 7, 2023 we met at the Veteran Suicide Awareness event held in Bemidji. I shared with you my idea of “Once in a Lifetime” debt forgiveness to the state to those incarcerated, upon their release. You expressed great excitement at the concept. You handed my business card to your aide, Brandon Clark, and told him, “Don’t lose this, I want to get back to this

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Average rating: 4.38 · 126 ratings · 18 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Muddy Jungle Rivers 4.48 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2012 — 4 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
	Pawns: The Farm, Nebish, Minnesota, 1950s 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — 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
	Herman: 1940s Lonely Hearts Search 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 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
	Barbara: Uncharted Course Through Borderline Personality Disorder by Wendell Affield (Goodreads Author), William Petersen (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 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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