Well, here we are again.

And I much appreciate you being here.

This is Hal Herring, the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

Podcasts and Blast.

I got kind of a special guest today with a little history I wanted to throw in here as an

introduction.

I'm talking with Lieutenant Colonel Russell worth Parker who has spent 22 years active service in the Marine Corps and five in the reserves.

He is kind of a special guest here today.

As he put it, he kind of fell backwards after his retirement into writing career, which is where I found him.

And I actually had been tracking him before that

because of a Facebook post I saw through a mutual friend of mine, Alan Morris Jones, who wrote a quiet place of violence,

and Russell Worth Parker, who goes by the name of Worth,

he had posted a he's a true son of the South and he despite his many years overseas

and he had posted a photo of a bookshelf, which contained almost exactly the same lineup of the best southern literature that is found on my own bookshelf. I found this so astoundingly unlikely

that I started following Wirth and started looking up his work.

So we're talking about Larry Brown and Harry Cruz and Barry Hanna,

Richard Ford, just it, I mean the the similarities of interest and passionate

engagement in literature were too too much to ignore for me.

So, worth as a, in addition to a long career as a marine raider about which he has written brilliantly and I'm

going to say uncomfortably, it doesn't matter.

He will say the most difficult thing.

It's just something that I cannot tell you how much I admire.

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