Ed Marohn
Ed Marohn was an executive with Continental AG and Michelin Tire Corporation, both International Fortune 500 companies. Prior to his corporate career, he was a captain in the US Army (Airborne and Ranger trained) and served with the 25th Infantry Division and the 101st Airborne (Airmobile) Division in the Vietnam War, where he commanded a combat unit of 110 men. He was awarded three Bronze Stars, one Air Medal, two Army Commendation Medals, one US Army Vietnam Campaign Medal with two campaigns, the South Vietnamese Campaign Medal, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm. His other military tours included Germany, Washington, DC, and The Netherlands as NATO Liaison (Dutch language trained by the US State Department), and Assistant Professor of Military History at the University of Nevada, Reno. At U of N he earned his MA in Counseling (psychology).
After retirement from the corporate world he became a VA volunteer facilitator for military veterans with PTSD because of his combat experience in the Vietnam War. Additionally, he became a Board Member, then eventually Vice Chairman, of the Idaho Humanities Council (National Endowment for the Humanities). Concurrently he served as Board Member of the Idaho Falls City Club. He was also elected to a four year term to the Idaho Falls City Council. He was a Local Columnist for the Idaho Falls Post Register and has had his fiction and non-fiction published in multiple magazines.
With his wife Cathie they often travel and have visited Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Panama, and did the Danube River cruise through Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The most significant trip was his return journey to Vietnam some thirty years after the war, where his novel, Legacy of War, was conceptualized.
He is currently writing a sequel novel.
Order the novel by clicking on the following link: Legacy-of-War.
After retirement from the corporate world he became a VA volunteer facilitator for military veterans with PTSD because of his combat experience in the Vietnam War. Additionally, he became a Board Member, then eventually Vice Chairman, of the Idaho Humanities Council (National Endowment for the Humanities). Concurrently he served as Board Member of the Idaho Falls City Club. He was also elected to a four year term to the Idaho Falls City Council. He was a Local Columnist for the Idaho Falls Post Register and has had his fiction and non-fiction published in multiple magazines.
With his wife Cathie they often travel and have visited Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Panama, and did the Danube River cruise through Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The most significant trip was his return journey to Vietnam some thirty years after the war, where his novel, Legacy of War, was conceptualized.
He is currently writing a sequel novel.
Order the novel by clicking on the following link: Legacy-of-War.