Launch the Ready - DNA American Patriot: A Proud Life in the U.S. Coast Guard

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• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes

CONTENTS
IN MEMORIAM.
PREFACE.

SEA SPRAY AND SMOKE DRIFT
Podas Okus
Gone
Unshriven
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes.
Borrow'd Plumes
A Legend of Madrid
Fauconshawe
Rippling Water
Cui Bono
Bellona
The Song of the Surf
Whisperings in Wattle-Boughs
Confiteor
Sunlight on the Sea
Delilah
From Lightning and Tempest
Wormwood and Nightshade
Ars Longa
The Last Leap
Quare Fatigasti

HIPPODROMANIA; OR, WHIFFS FROM THE PIPE
The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger

BUSH BALLADS & GALLOPING RHYMES
The Sick Stockrider
The Swimmer
From the Wreck
No Name
Wolf and Hound
De Te
How we Beat the Favourite
Fragmentary Scenes from the Road to Avernus
Doubtful Dreams
The Rhyme of Joyous Garde
Thora's Song
The Three Friends
A Song of Autumn
The Romance of Britomarte
Laudamus
A Basket of Flowers
A Fragment

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
"The Old Leaven"
An Exile's Farewell
"Early Adieux"
A Hunting Song
To a Proud Beauty
Thick-headed Thoughts

ASHTAROTH: A Dramatic Lyric

FOOTNOTES:

In this inspirational autobiography, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River earned the world's admiration, tells his life story and talks about the essential qualities that he believes have been so vital to his success.

In January 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in history when Captain Sullenberger brought a crippled US Airways flight onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all of the passengers and crew aboard. The successful outcome was the result of effective teamwork, Sully's dedication to airline safety, his belief that a pilot's judgment must go hand-in-hand with—and can never be replaced by—technology, and forty years of careful practice and training.

From his earliest memories of learning to fly as a teenager in a crop duster's single-engine plane in the skies above rural Texas to his years in the United States Air Force at the controls of a powerful F-4 Phantom, Sully describes the experiences that have helped make him a better leader, particularly the importance of taking responsibility for everyone in his care. And he talks about what he believes is at the heart of America's "can do" spirit: the very human drive to prepare for the unexpected and to meet it with optimism and courage.

His wife, Lorrie, has been a pillar of support through all the highs and lows that life has offered, from the challenges of commercial flying to the birth of their two daughters, from financial struggles to the event of January 15, 2009. Though the world may remember Sully as the hero of Flight 1549, the legacy he desires even more is that of a loving husband and father.

Highest Duty is the intimate story of a man who has grown up to embrace what we think of as quintessential American values—leadership, responsibility, commitment to hard work, and service to others. And it is a narrative that reminds us that cultivating seemingly ordinary virtues can prepare us to perform extraordinary acts.

He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called the devil by the enemies he hunted and the legend by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (the devil) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyles masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.

A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of war-of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends.

American Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children, as well as on Chris.

Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell.