This entire blog is based on my novel, “The Boys of Chattanooga,” which is available for sale on Amazon.com.

So far I’ve written about places and people such as: President Abraham Lincoln, the Army of the Cumberland, Chickamauga, General William Rosecrans, General Ulysses S. Grant, Gettysburg, Officer Gordon Granger, and tons more.

All of these blogs provide great background on my novel The Boys of Chattanooga, which details what I think is the greatest charge in all of war time.

Read up on it if you haven’t yet. It’ll be worth your time!

It’s been a ton of fun so far & I can’t wait to see where it takes me next!

“The Battle for Chattanooga, fought November 23, 24, and 25th of 1863, is without a doubt, the most remarkable and miraculous of any battle fought in the American Civil War.”

Read up on my blog on the Battle for Chattanooga and get a little history lesson while you’re at it. Hands down, it was the most heroic charge of the Civil War. Follow my blog to read more details on this vital battle!

If you desire more serious reading, you can try The Boys of Chattanooga the story of the largest and most miraculous charge of the American Civil War. Talk about problems, President Lincoln had problems, and a large portion of my novel tells of him deciding a course of action when The Army of the Cumberland was driven back to Chattanooga and then surrounded by the Confederate Army of Tennessee. It was a very desperate situation. A lot like we’ll have if Mr. Mitt is elected.

But what I want to write about tonight is Mr. Mitt’s tax return and bank accounts. This afternoon, President Obama mentioned Swiss Bank Accounts, which Mitt has. Now there is nothing illegal about them, but if he has them, then he’s taking the money he makes overseas and putting it into them, and probably not paying taxes on any of it. Once again, perfectly legal, but not too ethical for a man who is running for President of the United States. By the way, Mitt, how is that money going to trickle down to us poor Americans when it’s stashed overseas?

It’s already proven that his running mate, Paul Ryan, has paid a larger percentage of his income in taxes than Mitt. I wonder how they get around that fact while sitting next to a campfire trying to decide how to reduce the deficit? It must be difficult.

I just wonder how anyone can justify the trickle down effect when we’ve lived the last eleven years under Bush’s tax plan and are in far worse shape than when he took over the White House? What I believe this country needs most is a more simplified and better tax structure, one that will get more money back into the working class people’s hands and stop people from stashing money overseas or in off shore accounts. Mitt would be good at figuring that out. He knows all about off shore accounts.

My point though, is not about the bravery of our finest fighting men, nor is it about Mr. Panetta’s considerable administrative skills, which he now uses at the Defense Department, but about President Obama’s choice of whom could best run the CIA and track down Bin Laden. He chose, and Mr. Panetta and the Navy Seals delivered.

President Bush Jr. had seven years to find Bin Laden. Instead, he started an unfair, unjust, and unnecessary war. President Obama, looking from the outside into the chaos of Bush’s Washington, saw what had to be done, made an excellent choice of whom to do it, and we have achieved what we set out to do in Afghanistan. Now to get the country on the way to democracy and give their women a fair chance at life.

What kind of choices would Mitt make? I don’t think good ones. His rule of thumb seems to be ” might makes right.” Of course this is an easy rule of thumb if you have never served nor any of your five sons. It could be that he’d be worried about the jobs he might have shifted to Afghanistan or Pakistan. Maybe he’d worry about how he’d look to the liberals who would want Bin Laden brought back alive, or to the conservatives who would have wanted war with Pakistan. Maybe, maybe, maybe, but I will tell you that I don’t trust his decision making ability unless it’s for selfish gain or to protect his family – not yours or mine, but his. End of story.

Just before my wife and I left Nevada, Mitt came out and said again how he’d do something about Syria, bomb it, put in troops, do whatever is necessary to bring peace to that beleagured nation. Believe me, I hate to see the Syrain people suffer too. Anyone with the slightest compassion and in their right mind hates to see them suffer. I find Assad a terribly cruel and unjust man. If you wish evidence, watch the evening news when the Syrian Army shells civilian neighborhoods. Watch the children being carted away in ambulances or covered with sheets and see if you don’t agree. How any man could do that to his people is beyond my understanding, but history is replete with such dictators. But I digress from my point, which is Mitt Romney.

Once again, Mr. Mitt is telling the world that he’d use American might to solve the problem, and once again the world is saying that another George Bush Jr. is waiting in the wings. And once again the Republicans are saying that President Obama isn’t doing enough to solve the problem and stop the bloodshed.

Why then isn’t our President acting? Because he can’t get U.N. approval or Nato sanction to do so. Please keep in mind that Russia and China are allies of Syria and are opposed to any actions against the Syrian government. Movement into Syria could bring a far larger conflict, one that we wouldn’t want Mitt’s sons to fight.

The fact of the matter is that no one hates the suffering in Syria more than President Obama, and he would do far more to help the Syrian people if Russia and China were not blocking action by the United Nations. Mitt’s Syrian threats come on the heels of his proposed policy to put our fleets off the coast of Iran. Such brave talk for a man who never served or whose sons never served. Vote for Mitt if you wish. I’ll even accompany you to the airport to wave goodbye to your sons and daughters, probably your jobs too.