The author, after managing air defense weapons including PATRIOT, retired as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Raytheon’s Missile Systems Division. Other positions included Trustee of the Association of the United States Army and President of its First Region, President American Defense Preparedness Association Yankee Chapter, Trustee of Merrimack College and President of Sunrise Condo Association. His world travels included the Middle East. He’s still active in church and, of his many hobbies, fishing, boating and writing. His first book was DAVID, A Biographical Sketch. For this second book he researched the Koran, the Bible and holy war history.