We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Melanie Davis. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Melanie below.
Melanie , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?
I am the founder of Triumph Press, a publishing company for those who have important stories to share that can make a difference in the world. These are stories that come from our life experiences, our tragedies, and our triumphs, which of course is where the name of the company comes from. I started this as a way to find healing and overcome my own loss and tragedy when my seven-month-old daughter, Brynn, passed away from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
On the day that she died, I felt a powerful sense of purpose. I didn’t know at the time what it would be. And it’s been quite a journey to this point, but it started with just writing my story. I’m a writer and keep a journal for all of my children. I began a journal that had her little footprints placed in it at birth and where I had written a mother’s first message to her child. In it, I would write the cute and funny things that I didn’t want to forget because we do forget over time. After Brynn passed away, I picked up that journal and wrote what it was like finding her in her crib, the ambulance ride, praying that she’d make it, and knowing that she was already gone, going to the police station for some questioning. I wouldn’t call it an interrogation, but we definitely were brought into the interrogation rooms just because that’s standard practice when there’s a death in the home. Of course, the police were very sympathetic. It was just a process, but it was unbelievable to be sitting there being questioned in a police station after just giving my little baby girl a kiss on the forehead for the last time.
At the time I had two other children. One was five and one was two and a half years old. I took them to the park later that day. The sun was shining and I actually smiled. I remember thinking, I can’t believe I’m smiling on such a day! I was carried through because I felt a powerful sense of purpose. After some time, I was able to pick up that journal and I wrote all that I’d learned. If you had asked me before this happened how I would handle losing a child, I would have said, “Oh, just put me in a dark room, lock the door and just leave me there.” But as time went on, I found out that I could get through a mother’s worst nightmare and I could actually find purpose in it.
When I wrote in my journal, I was writing to my children and posterity, because, for one, I wanted them to know about their sister. But I also wanted to tell them that you’re going to face hardship in life and you can get through it, even when you think you can’t. In my journaling, I taught them the things that I had learned. Most importantly, I know that God lives. Because I couldn’t have gotten through what I did without His love and presence. At times I felt him in miraculous ways. It is said that you have to go into the darkest places to find the light, to really recognize light. For me, the miracles I’ve experienced in my life have always come when life is hardest. I think that’s really important to understand. It gives meaning and value to the hardships that we go through.
So, I wrote in my journal what I had gone through, and a little later, I was able to share my pictures and my journaling in what was then a new technology. Everybody’s seen it now, but years ago, I was able to publish one of the very first storybooks, which is where you blend your writing with your pictures into a glossy, hardback, beautiful book. And really, you could say that was the beginning of my publishing career.
I had put together this beautiful book that could be printed many times, instead of being hidden in a fire-proof safe which is what we do with our costly scrapbooks that were the method of memory preservation previously. People would often come to me and want to know how I got through such a hardship, In answer to their questions, I would just print another copy of my book and hand it to them saying, “Maybe there’s something in my story that can help.” I gave out 100 copies of that book. This brought me to a realization of just how healing it is to share your story and to see it help someone else.
Gradually, over time, I found more and more purpose in Brynn’s death as sharing how I got through it was helping someone else. Out of that, I created a bereavement program that was called Storybooks for Healing. I wrote a workbook that allowed people to process the death of a loved one, helped them find purpose and meaning in what they’ve been through, and assisted them in discovering what they were going to do with the newfound abilities that come as we go through challenges and sorrows in life. In the end of the program, they would publish a book to preserve the memory of their loved ones. What I learned is that very often we hold onto grief as a way of ensuring our loved ones aren’t forgotten. Because if we don’t remember them, who will? And that, I believe, is really the source of extended grief.
In Storybooks for Healing, the participants would work in the workbook during the week and then we’d come together as a group once a week to share our writing and discoveries. There are also many different art activities and therapies that are part of it. I worked with bereavement counselors who would attend because I am not a professional counselor. I would always say to people, “You can overcome grief.” Now let me say, that “overcoming grief” is how you define it. To me, overcoming grief means I’m not sad all the time. I’m not depressed. I can find joy and purpose in life again.
To a person, every bereavement counselor who worked with me (I worked with some of the largest hospices in Dallas running these groups, and they were very effective) would pull me aside and say, “Oh, we don’t say that. We’re not sure it’s true.” And they would give me the catchphrases that are approved to use, such as, “In time you’ll find a new normal,” or “There’s no timeline for grief.” I understand why they say these things because I think very often we try to rush people through grief and don’t let them go through the process, but it appears to me that the bereavement industry has all been trained to use these catchphrases as kind of a knee-jerk reaction instead of considering what is really needed to heal.
To this admonition, I thought, “No, that’s holding people in grief because now they don’t have hope that they’re ever going to feel better again! It’s setting the bar so low!” I truly believe this idea has caused people to be stuck in grief, sometimes their whole lives, especially based on the testimonials I received from those who went through Storybooks for Healing.
My answer to that was to write my first book titled, The Triumph Book, which is a collection of first-person stories from people who’ve been through severe tragedies and found purpose and joy in life because of what they went through. I compiled these stories because they’re all evidence that, yes, you can overcome grief! I didn’t seek out the stories to intentionally find certain ones that would fit my agenda for the book. Honestly, they just came to me very organically and naturally. Each chapter is a first-person story and behind each chapter is a section I call Behind the Story, where I explain how I met that person, anything that they’re involved in, or any nonprofits that they may be associated with. What happened was that everyone whose story I collected showed how service to others and finding purpose and meaning in what we’ve been through is the way to overcome grief.
The first story in that book, the first chapter, is mine. It’s my journaling from Brynn’s passing and all that I learned. This was what was the catalyst for starting my publishing company, Triumph Press. You can see in my logo and even on the cover of this book, that there’s a silhouette of a person standing up on a winner’s platform. The person is more of a male figure, but it represents all of us, holding a book high above our heads as if to say, “This is my greatest achievement. This is the greatest gift that I have to give the world.” I truly believe that our stories are that valuable. They’re more valuable than Olympic gold. And they become even more valuable when we share them.
Storybooks for Healing evolved into more of a trauma-informed narrative therapy that I used, particularly with veterans as I have a version for veterans to help with their PTSD. I changed the title of it to The Triumph Program. Now, it’s not just about death loss, but all kinds of losses and experiences that create trauma. I first published the book for veterans in 2010. Most recently, I’ve spent the last seven years working with justice-involved veterans/incarcerated veterans and then branching out to all the incarcerated. The programs I have developed for this underserved population (justice-involved veterans) has received many awards including the 1019 Texas Governors Award for Service to Veterans, a Congressional Commendation and the 2020 Peacebuilder Award with recipients selected by the honorable judges of Montgomery and Harris Counties (greater Houston, TX). As I mentioned at the beginning, on the day Brynn died, I felt a powerful sense of purpose and today I can say that I have truly found that pathway to healing and meaning in her passing.
I started Triumph Press so that I could publish my own books and have creative control of the cover and the messaging. It didn’t take long before I was providing publishing services to other authors who have important stories and wisdom to share. I founded Triumph Press in 2009 and have been given the honor of publishing a wide variety of important books including war veterans, a Cambodia Genocide Survivor and stories from overcomers of Human Trafficking, to name just a few. I’ve helped many of them become #1 Hot New Release Bestsellers on Amazon and they all have been making an impact on the world!
I recently started a YouTube channel, TRIUMPH TALKS, to provide a platform for authors of nonfiction and self-help books to talk about their stories and teach the many lessons they have to strengthen others. I also encourage viewers to consider the value of their own stories. I think it’s wonderful when you have a story to share that can make an impact on other people. I encourage everyone to take the time to journal, to write down their stories, to share them, to preserve them.
Starting this channel is now part of my mission. I feel strongly that the message we can find triumph in our tragedies is essential. This world can be pretty scary sometimes. We need to find hope to help us though and to believe there’s still a lot of good around us. We need to find our purposes and we need to share them and strengthen each other. That is what combats darkness… BEING A LIGHT! One of the best ways that you can be a light is to share your story, whether it’s to write it or speak it or sing it… whatever creative way resonates with you. Take a look at what you’ve been through and know that it’s valuable; it’s not for nothing. In fact, it’s for everything and it’s for everyone! There’s so much that I have to teach from my workbook, from working with veterans and serving people who’ve been through great loss and adversity. The ebook of The Triumph Book is available for free at my website, www.TriumphPress.com.
Melanie , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I began my publishing career as a journal writer who processed the great loss of a seven-month-old baby girl to SIDS by writing and sharing my story. I now provide others the same pathway to meaning and purpose in their adversities. (see my previous answer for the more detailed story)
Because of the timing (just when technology made it possible to more easily share our stories), I feel that I actually discovered a NEW FORM OF therapy for overcoming grief and trauma. I say this because, in the past, we would create scrapbooks, spending hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours, and then stick it in a fireproof safe because they’re a one-of-a-kind. But with the new technology, being able to put pictures and stories together, print it and share it in a book that looks like you could have bought it at Barnes and Noble, well, that was something new! There’s great healing power not only in journaling (narrative therapy) but in sharing your story and wisdom with others.
In the 22 years since my daughter died, I have taken on many skills and services to bring light and healing into the world. I will break them down into the following:
AUTHOR: I have compiled numerous anthologies, The Triumph Book Series, which are first-person accounts from people who have overcome great adversities to include The Triumph Book (the first one covers a wide array of tragedies and traumas), HEROES (a collection of first-person stories from veterans spanning the decades of war, from WWII up through our more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan) and Raising Wheels (stories from parents raising children who are differently abled and adults who are living life on wheels.) I have also written a variety of trauma-informed, narrative therapy programs that serve such populations as the bereaved, veterans, the incarcerated, and at-risk youth. They include The Triumph Program and The Triumph Journey, with the first one helping participants to process traumas and the second teaching the elements of storytelling in a way that participants (primarily youth) discover how to become the heroes and authors of their own lives, living with greater direction and purpose. (I can provide greater detail about each of these programs if desired)
PUBLISHER: I am the founder of Triumph Press which is an INDIE PUBLISHER, a revolution in book publishing. Traditional publishing houses often require an agent to even be considered, they maintain most or all creative control and the author is lucky to receive 7% of the profits. Self-publishing can often appear amateur and low-quality without professional attention to detail and support, with very few of the books statistically reaching success.
Under Triumph Press you are part of a reputable brand of high-quality, inspirational true stories and self-help books which has many landmark books in its label. You receive assistance and coaching through every step of the process, from writing to publishing to marketing. Triumph Press assists you in publishing a highly professional book with reputable branding but also allows you to maintain all rights, sales, distribution control, and profits from your book. To my knowledge, there isn’t another publishing company like it.
COACH WRITER and GHOSTWRITER: I have been hired to write numerous books for clients who need help to get their stories told in the most effective way possible. With the latest technology, I now offer to interview clients on video and then use the transcript to develop their book, so they have both video storytelling and a book to go with it.
LEGACY BOOK PUBLISHING: Triumph Press Legacy Books are designed to preserve the lives and wisdom of the authors to specifically strengthen their families and posterity. This is a slightly different approach from commercial book publishing, where the goal isn’t sales and distribution as much as it is to leave a legacy.
TRIUMPH TALKS YouTube Channel Host: Here is the description of the channel: “Discover Stories that Change the World.” Melanie Davis, founder of Triumph Press, interviews authors of important books that inspire, capture history, educate, promote causes, and change the world. Meet new authors, discover great books to add to your reading list, hear encouraging messages, and learn how to write and share your own valuable stories.
H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring Founder: H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring gives incarcerated veterans meaningful opportunities to continue serving our country by mentoring and supporting their prison unit neighbors resulting in improved relations and a more positive culture for all who live or work in units where The Triumph Program and Pathfinder Project curriculum is present. Avenues for giving service provide the sense of purpose and usefulness that is often lacking as veterans return home from war and which becomes more pronounced in the restricted penitentiary environment. H.O.N.O.R. is an acronym for Helping Our Neighbors Overcome and Rebuild and is being used within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Through the H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring program, veterans can set positive examples and lead the way towards growth and development, just as they have gone ahead of us when they protected our country. Through their servant-based leadership, an increase in comradery and positivity unit-wide will lead to a more productive environment in which inmates can serve their time and be prepared to reintegrate back into society.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
Driving east across the Sam Houston National Forest, direct light from the rising sun was nearly blinding until I finally headed north on the back country roads above Huntsville, Texas (prison capitol of the state). I was 30 minutes into the hour-long drive to my destination. Stomping the clutch of my red and black Mini Cooper while engaging the stick shift produced such rapid speed, it seemed lift-off was just one gear-shift away. The aviation-inspired display on the dashboard intentionally bolstered the fantasy. With few other drivers and no ticketing cops to be seen, the freedom to fly around corners was mesmerizing, along with the serenity of daybreak. The occasional bloated carcass of a 200 lb. wild hog on the side of the road, however, served as a reminder that disaster was just one corner, and one alive hog, away.
Pulling up to the guardhouse at the entrance of Eastham prison unit, the sun had risen beyond the colorful dawn, ready to torment us all with the humid summer heat of Texas in the red brick prison with almost no air conditioning except where employees are located. I downshifted and put on the brake as the guard walked over.
“Morning ma’am. What are you here for?” he asked, bending towards my lowered widow while sucking and spitting as if he was actively chewing tobacco. Although it wasn’t permitted on duty, there were flecks of it stuck in his teeth.
“I’m here with a veteran’s program.” I replied as I handed him my driver’s license to check against his gate list.
“We have a program for the veterans?” He asked, clearly surprised.
“You do now.” I declared.
“Ok, good luck with that,” he said indifferently as he handed back my license and rolled away the gate blocking the entrance.
The straight two-mile road leading up to the prison was lined with cornfields on either side. Eastham (nicknamed “The Ham”) was built in 1917 for inmates to do the backbreaking work once done by sharecroppers. Clyde Barrow of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde did some time and came back in January of 1934 with Bonnie and a few other ex-convicts to implement the plan they hatched while incarcerated to break out some of his friends still held at Eastham. It failed miserably and one of the guards died.
Ironically, it is said that their Eastham Prison Break was the beginning of the end for Bonnie and Clyde. The general manager of the Texas Prison System, Lee Simmons, embarrassed and angry at the raid and death of his guard, reached out to Frank Hamer, a 49-year-old retired Texas Ranger. Simmons told Hamer, “I want you to put Clyde and Bonnie ‘on the spot’ and then shoot everyone in sight,” Through pop history, we all know how that story ended. Upon his return from the ambush, Mr. Hamer gifted Lee Simmons with a pistol from the Bonnie and Clyde death car which can now be seen at the Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas.
I was envisioning these scenes from days gone by as I drove the final stretch of road to Eastham. Up ahead, tractors pulled trailers filled with seated men in white prison attire while guards wearing large-brimmed hats rode massive horses alongside the convoy. Their job was to oversee the hoeing and to ensure that no Clyde-like shenanigans ever happened again. It seemed that not much has changed in just over 100 years since the brick and mortar were first laid for this unit that now houses over 2,000 prisoners.
Sharing the road with the work crew coming in the opposite direction, I slowed for the safety of the men and horses and finally kept the posted speed limit. The prisoners looked down from their bench seats, staring at me as I drove by. Their faces were a mix of 1,000-yard stares and curiosity to see a woman driving up in a red sports car.
One prisoner, in particular, caught my attention with the sad look on his face. He was middle-aged, Hispanic of smaller frame. A year later, after graduating from my program, I knew him as a veteran who goes by the name of “No Talk.” Apparently, his mouth kept getting him into trouble, so he resolutely took a vow of silence. I don’t know how many years it has been since he’s spoken, but it’s not a few. As forlorn as he looked when sitting in the middle of the trailer headed for the fields, his face would light up when he smiled.
Arriving in the parking lot, I stepped out to be greeted by Mike, a tall, black Vietnam-era veteran with a wide smile to match the stride of his step. “Are you ready?” he asked with enthusiasm while putting on his baseball hat advertising that he had been in the Army artillery. I stood for a moment, looking up and down the fence line topped with curled Constantine wire. Though it was still early, the roar of the prison was rising.
I followed Mike to the gate where we held our driver’s licenses up to the camera for the guard sitting up in the tower to inspect and cross-check with his list before buzzing us through. We had to fully close the gate behind us and stand in the “no man’s land” space between the fences before the next door would open. Next was the security check which was a little more invasive than your standard airport variety.
Once inside the gut of the brick structure, a long, wide hall with multiple gates to be opened and closed needed to be walked as we headed to the North Chapel (which was really just a large metal building). It was noisy and hot inside, with huge fans continuously running, creating a wind that was more heatwave than cooling. The dorms that stretched out on either side of the long hallway were full of men walking around shirtless trying unsuccessfully to beat the heat. The noise from all the ineffective fans required yelling. It wasn’t possible to talk in a normal voice and be heard… thus the “roar” of prison.
I have always loved veterans, but I discovered I have an even bigger heart for the Forgotten Veterans. Currently, the Veterans Justice Commission, led by onetime Pentagon chiefs Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta, is examining the extent to which veterans are getting in trouble with the law. The commission has identified that as many as one in three of the nation’s 19 million military veterans have reported being arrested and that approximately 181,500 veterans are incarcerated, making up about eight percent of the state prison population and five percent of the federal prison population. That is an extremely high rate considering less than one percent of all U.S. adults volunteer to serve, according to the Pew Research Center.
Their risk of being justice-involved is elevated by post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and substance abuse issues. The Commission Report says. “Once ensnared by the system, veterans often present a complex set of needs and risk factors that are distinctive from those characteristic of civilians without a military background. But multiple barriers prevent many veterans from receiving the targeted interventions they need.” (Military Times, The Number of Incarcerated Veterans Concerns Former Defense Chiefs, Tara Copp AP, March 2, 2023)
Veterans are losing their freedom because of defending ours!
Awareness has finally been raised about the suicide rate, but almost no one talks about the veteran incarceration rate. Up until this commission was initiated within just the past year, incarcerated veterans have been completely forgotten.
It was in 2016 when I got an unexpected phone call informing me that The Triumph Program: Military Edition had been introduced to the Chaplaincy Department of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and they could see how effective it would be in providing support to incarcerated veterans. I was told there were almost no programs specific to helping veterans at that time and my material was especially welcomed. In a matter of only a few weeks, it was approved for use with all incarcerated veterans in the state of Texas.
Up to that point, I had struggled greatly to reach and help veterans. There is a long list of attempts and failures to work with or start nonprofits to address their needs. I’ll just say, that nonprofit work is very difficult to get funded and off the ground and all to often we give veterans a handshake while saying, “Thank you for your service!” which falls far short of their needs which result from the sacrifices they have made.
I began serving justice-involved veterans by going into the Montgomery County Jail Vet Pod once a week with The Triumph Program, and then expanded to veterans in TDCJ. I had the opportunity to participate in the events of Mike Barber Ministries which is a prison support organization that sets up tents on the grounds of prison units and brings out the prisoners who wanted to hear messages of hope and healing through Christ. Mike Barber is a former NFL player who now dedicates his life to bringing inspiration, and some good-smelling bars of soap, to the incarcerated across Texas. I was given the opportunity to gather all veterans in a unit and speak to them from the Mike Barber Ministries stage, sharing my story and passion to support them. Between these speaking opportunities and going inside on a weekly basis with The Triumph Program, I spent time in more than ten units across Texas and provided the program to more than 300 prisoners. Congressman Kevin Brady was an active supporter of serving our justice-involved veterans by providing Congressional Commendations to every veteran who completed The Triumph Program. The certificates came in special blue folders with the Congressional Seal on the front… it was such an amazing way to let our imprisoned veterans know they are not forgotten and still appreciated! (Thank you, Kevin Brady!!!)
One of the first veterans I worked with inside the Montgomery County Jail Vet Pod, Sgt. T.J. Phillips, reached out to me five years later to let me know the lasting effect The Triumph Program had on him. In his message, T.J. wrote, “I have told many people about how impressed I was being taught to take the monstrous issues haunting my psyche and reduce them to a few sentences on paper. I have renamed my PTSD to Pen Time Stops Demons. I am far from cured, but I have the tools to make the issues smaller.”
It was in the Eastham unit where I spent most of my time…. two full days a week. It began with The Triumph Program and expanded to a larger community-building concept called H.O.N.O.R. I introduced H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring as a program for veterans mentoring at-risk youth (and I am, slowly, still growing that version with the recent publication of The Triumph Journey, a workbook empowering youth to “Discover, Write and LIVE their Triumph Stories”).
After spending significant time working with veterans in prison, I came to realize the value of giving incarcerated veterans effective opportunities to continue serving our country by mentoring and supporting their prison unit neighbors. Avenues for giving service provide the sense of purpose and usefulness that is often lacking as veterans return home from war and which becomes more pronounced in the restricted penitentiary environment.
It is a basic human need to feel our lives matter and fulfill a purpose. Through the H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring program, veterans can set positive examples and lead the way toward growth and development just as they have gone ahead of us when they protected our country. Through their servant-based leadership, an increase in comradery and positivity unit-wide can lead to a more productive environment in which prisoners can serve their time and be prepared to reintegrate back into society.
I was given approval by TDCJ to develop and pilot test H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring at the Eastham unit in 2018. It was so successful that it received the 2019 Texas Governor’s Award for Service to Veterans, a Congressional Commendation, and the 2020 Peacebuilder Award with recipients chosen by the honorable judges of Montgomery and Harris Counties (Greater Houston).
Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?
The Triumph Book: HEROES was originally published on 11/11/11 and I added the story of incarcerated veteran, Jeff Seery story in the Summer of 2023, 11 years later, after having spent the past seven years working with justice-involved veterans. It all began one day
I met Sgt. Jeff Seery at the Estelle unit when I spoke to the veterans there. His was not one of the units where I spent considerable time, in fact, I only visited on a few occasions, but that was enough to take notice of this Army hero whom everyone respectfully calls “Ranger.” At the end of my presentation about TRIUMPH, he was brought over to meet me by another veteran who insisted we need to talk. Seery carried a black journal in which he had already been writing specifically on the topic of “triumph” and I was impressed with the excerpts he read me, after some encouragement by his comrade.
At the time I met Jeff Seery, I had already visited many prisons and met hundreds of veterans. Sgt. Seery stood out among them all as I never forgot his presence. He carried himself with confidence and intention. I suspect meeting General Patton would not be more memorable than meeting Jeff Seery, standing straight and tall in his white prison uniform with his jaw muscles flexing in determination and his piercing blue eyes looking straight ahead with the tenacity of a man on a mission to make a difference.
Having heard some of his writing and recognizing that Jeff was working to develop programs to help the veterans on his unit, I opened a correspondence with him that lasted for years and developed into a friendship based on a mutual passion to improve the lives of all prisoners. He was starting something called Pathfinder Project and often reached out to me for help with writing his mission statement, program descriptions, etc. Through his project which is the first prisoner-developed program to be approved by TDCJ, Jeff Seery used his military special ops training and genuine concern for others to stop the suicide epidemic on his unit.
In time we officially joined forces as I asked Sgt. Seery to co-author a Forgotten Veteran version of The Triumph Program as well as an edition for all incarcerated. I asked him to be the co-founder in the further development of H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring as Seery’s powerful presence and intensity enable him to implement and teach these critical life-changing programs within prison walls. He is being given the opportunity by his current administration at the Allred unit to incubate the larger plans for H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring, enabling life-changing hope and direction to take root as prisoners work together to build a community, they are all invested in and work to preserve. Sgt. Seery’s Pathfinder Project, which he started while on the Estelle unit, is now joined with H.O.N.O.R. Mentoring and together we have co-authored more curricula including the Pathfinder Project Leadership Training Manual and H.O.N.O.R. Implementation Guide, the Pathfinder Project Tactical Field Manual for the Battlefields of Life, as well as additional books we are currently writing together.
With the submission of the legal work to be exonerated, I fully expect to work with Sgt. Jeff Seery in the free world with hopes to see the purpose we have found in our individual tragedies continue to converge into a successful mission to bring these materials to more veterans and prison systems across this nation… and beyond.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.TriumphPress.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557607611449
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TriumphTalks
- Other: I am also the co-host of Masters Of The Air TALKS focused on military stories. https://www.youtube.com/@MastersOfTheAirTALKS
Image Credits
Newspaper photo by Julie Taylor Award Ceremony photo with First Lady Abbott by OneStar Foundation