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On 17 April, Delhi Police had arrested 35-year-old Ansar, who was allegedly involved in conspiring the communal clashes, an official said. The key accused, Ansar was also found to be previously involved in two cases of assault and was also arrested earlier under preventive sections and booked five times under the Gambling Act and the Arms Act.

Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been trading claims about Ansar, with AAP leader Atishi claiming on Tuesday that he has links with the BJP.

The AAP leader's claim comes a day after the BJP claimed that Ansar in fact had links with AAP.

Imam alias Sonu was arrested by the special staff of the North West Delhi district police on Monday. A video of him wearing a blue kurta opening fire during the violence had gone viral on social media.

At least 25 people have been arrested in connection with the violence that ensued on 16 April during a Hanuman Jayanti procession in Jahangirpuri. Two juveniles have been apprehended as well.

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Babagana Monguno, Nigerias national security adviser, has said the surrendering and reintegration of repentant Boko Haram elements has not engendered the desired result in stemming insurgency in the country.

Mongonu disclosed this after a meeting the President had with Service Chiefs and other major stakeholders in the country, Thursday.

The retired Major General also expressed President Muhammadu Buharis grief about the countrys security situation.

According to the Security Adviser, President Muhammadu Buhari has remained a sad man as a result of the persistent insecurity in the country which the nations security agencies have been unable to endHe revealed that the President cannot be happy when people are being killed on a daily basis.

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He described the recent attacks on the Abuja Kaduna train as the last strawMongonnu noted that Buhari has consequently ordered the rescue of all kidnapped persons unhurt using the train attack as a fulcrum.

The NSA noted that the President feels that enough was not being done by the security agencies despite what has been provided.

Monguno stated that the President alone cannot completely receive the blame for the insecurity in the country as his part is to make strategic decisions which the NAA said he has been doing.

The NSA also spoke on the threats coming from the countrys vast land borders and the need to replicate in them what has been achieved in the maritime borders.

He also stressed the imperative of intelligence from ordinary citizens as he noted that unless the wider society is willing to provide the necessary intelligence, the problem of insecurity will linger beyond the time frame intended to end the menace.The meeting which lasted for over three hours, took place inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja,

He disclosed that the government is however intensifying behind the scene efforts to rescue the about 68 passengers abducted inside the Abuja-Kaduna train.

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The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, has directed the Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Professor Peter Twumasi to submit a full report on the state of national stadia in a bid to get them in shape to host international matches.

This decision was taken following reports from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to withdraw the Baba Yara Stadium from hosting category A matches.

According to Jamaludeen Abdullah, a special assistant to the minister, the ministry was ready to begin works to renovate all national stadia in the country to be able to host international matches.

The minister has directed the NSA boss to present to him a full report on the state of our national stadiums in order for him to begin action to get them in shape and fit to host all international games, Mr Abdullah said.

The four national stadia likely to be renovated are the Accra Sports Stadium, Baba Yara Sports Stadium, Cape Coast Sp

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All of us at Tripwires Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Heres what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of April 18, 2022. Ive also included some comments on these stories.

On April 13, the Department of Energy (DoE), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn that certain industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices can be targeted by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors who have the capability to gain full system access, reports Dark Reading.

For those in the CI (Critical Infrastructure) sectors, and more specifically, for those that are responsible for the security of their respective ICS and SCADA Systems, I hope you are paying attention to the news and advisories being published, for good reason.

Mid last week, CISA and a couple of the other lettered, federal agencies (DoE, NSA, FBI) released a new advisory warning that certain ICS and SCADA systems are being targeted by APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) actors to gain full system access and control.

Vulnerable products include:

Once compromised, the threat actors can then use custom-made tools to scan for additional vulnerable devices so they can take control of them too. Noted in the article is that there is a critical issue with Windows-based engineering workstations, whereby they leverage vulnerable motherboard drivers, whether they are in the OT or IT environment. From there, they could elevate their privileges and move laterally across the environment with the potential to cause greater damage.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert on a new phishing scheme aimed at tricking victims into making money transfers to accounts controlled by cybercriminals, Security Week reports. The attack moonlights as a legitimate financial institution and targets users of digital payment applications, sending them a text and asking them to confirm that they initiated an instant money transfer.

Phishing schemes and their social engineering techniques appear to be getting more and more sophisticated, which is a problem for people who are unfamiliar with these types of schemes, or for those who may be more vulnerable.

Digital banking and payment apps are beyond commonplace now (pandemic aside, I cant remember the last time I stepped foot inside a physical bank branch), so its unsurprising that phishing has made its way to them. The FBI is warning of a Reverse Instant Payment scam.

As the article notes, if a recipient of an automated text message responds, the cybercriminal will call the potential victim from a spoofed 1-800 number that appears to match that of the financial institution. Additionally, the criminals are typically speaking English with no accent.

Diving a bit deeper into how the scam is perpetrated, the attackers look to have extensive information of the victims background, including past addresses, Social Security numbers, etc. Armed with this, they claim to represent the banks fraud department and walk the victim through a process thats meant to reverse a fake instant payment transaction (that the victim did not initiate in the first place).

From there, the victim is asked to remove their email address from the digital payment app and share it with the cybercriminal, who then adds it to a bank account that is controlled by the cybercriminals.

After the email address has been changed, they ask the victim to initiate a new instant payment transaction address to themselves which will cancel or reverse the original fraudulent payment. What is happening is that the victim is now sending the payment from their bank account to the one now controlled by cybercriminal.

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Cryptocurrency wallet maker MetaMask has warned its 21 million monthly users to be wary of Apple iCloud backing up their apps data by default, after attackers successfully stole $650,000 of funds and NFTs. In a blog on Bitdefender, Graham Cluley explains that once your Apple ID is compromised, hackers can gain access to sensitive data from any of your apps (like MetaMask) that backed up with default settings.

This is an example of how good social engineering and phishing is getting, as well as ensuring you review the default settings on an app when you choose to install it. A cryptocurrency wallet user revealed that he had fallen victim to a social engineering scam and had $650K worth of funds and NFTs stolen.

Here is how the scam was pulled off:

So now the attacker had access to the victims iCloud account. By default, that wont automatically provide access to a users separate cryptocurrency wallet. Here is where checking the app settings to see what is being backed up to your iCloud account is critical.

The default setting of MetaMask (the cryptocurrency wallet used by the victim) is to back up data to the users iCloud account, including the secret 12-word recovery phrase, which would be used in an emergency (by the user) if they cannot remember their password or access their account. There is no warning provided by the app to inform users that data is being backed up to the users iCloud Account, which is critical in my opinion.

The article and victim do not go into detail as to how the attacker then got access to the victims MetaMask encrypted vault, but it does suggest that if they had reused a password, chose an obvious one, or one that could easily be cracked, then they could go on to access everything in the crypto wallet.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has fixed four security issues in its hot patch from December that addressed the critical Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), reports Bleeping Computer. This particular vuln affects cloud or on-premise environments running Java applications with a vulnerable version of the Log4j logging library or containers.

AWS looks to have addressed four issues from its initial hot patch release in December, which was meant to address the Log4Shell vulnerability, which affects Java applications running a vulnerable version of Log4j logging library or containers.

It is important to note that the hot patches are not exclusive to AWS Resources, which allowed escaping a container in the environment and taking control of a host.

For those unfamiliar with containers, and escaping a container, they can be broken down as follows. Containers are:

Escaping a container involves exploiting vulnerabilities which allow an attacker to break free of a containers isolation and access the hosts resources. This presents a large problem as they may be able to elevate privileges and cause additional harm.

Security Researchers discovered that the hot-fix solutions meant to address the Log4j/Log4Shell would keep searching for Java processes and patch them on the fly, without checking to see what restrictions should be enforced by the container. An additional problem that was created because of the patches was that the host processes were all provided with elevated privileges during the Log4Shell patching processes.

AWS Users that applied the initial hot patch can review the security bulletin which details the four new issues and what to do to address them.

This is a fitting example of why vulnerability management is such an important and critical piece of risk management and cybersecurity. If security practitioners and their leadership do not have a good handle on what vulnerabilities exist within their organization and what is being done to address them, then it is only a matter of time before malicious actors exploit these gaps in your digital defenses.

Vulnerability Management is a continuous and on-going exercise, which should feed into the larger cybersecurity policies. Look at the NIST Cybersecurity Framework for starters. While this is geared towards the Critical Infrastructure sectors, it has five distinct functions in its cycle, with specific sub-categories and outputs to help define an entire plan.

Cisco on Wednesday announced the release of patches for several high-severity vulnerabilities in its products, including a bug reported by the National Security Agency (NSA). Tracked as CVE-2022-20783 (CVSS score of 7.5), the NSA-reported flaw is a denial of service (DoS) issue in TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint (CE) and RoomOS software, which could be exploited remotely, without authentication, Security Week noted on April 21.

Cisco released another round of patches of high-severity vulnerabilities. Some key patches include fixes for a denial-of-service vulnerability that the NSA reported in their TelePresence CE and RoomOS software. They also patched an elevation of privilege vulnerability in their VIM product alongside about 10 medium severity vulnerabilities.

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PCC received a roughly $189,000 grant from the National Security Agency to create a repository for cybersecurity educational materials.

PORTLAND, Ore. The world has become increasingly more reliant on computers and technology. With that increased reliance comes people who want to take advantage.

In the world of cybersecurity, experts say theres a big shortage of workers. It's an issue especially because there's no shortage of people trying to steal or exploit sensitive information. As such there are major efforts underway to get more people into the cybersecurity field.

So a lot of different groups, you know from government, to different companies, to other types of organizations to educational institutions are trying to figure out how can we get more people with cybersecurity skills to fill these different positions, said Dr. Cara Tang, a Portland Community College professor who leads the cybersecurity program.

Tang said that the school just received a roughly $189,000 grant from the National Security Agency, or NSA.

The National Security Agency has a program that they call GenCyber that they've been running for a number of years now, and this program hosts camps for students from K-12 to get interested in cybersecurity, Tang said.

PCCs role will be supporting those camps through collecting vetted curriculum so theres a central location for each camp to draw resources.

This will be a public resource that can also be used by, you know, teachers at school even outside of the GenCyber program, if they want to teach cybersecurity in their courses, said Tang.

In a press release, PCC staff described the project as assembling a GenCyber instructor survival kit for middle and high school computer science and cybersecurity teachers across the country.

Its no accident that PCC has been chosen to head up the nationwide effort. Tang said that in 2018, PCC was recognized by the NSA as a center of academic excellence in cybersecurity.

The hope is that the creation of a repository containing quality cybersecurity educational materials will help promote interest in the cybersecurity field among more kids and teens from different backgrounds.

Tang said PCC will be working with SecurEd, a nonprofit that will host the material online. She said the nonprofit already has educational materials on its website but hopes that there will be more resources available by this summer.

The kit will be on the CLARK Curriculum Library, which hosts the largest compilation of high-value, high-impact cybersecurity curriculum in the country, PCC staff said in a press release.

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Dan Marshall, a graduate of Nansemond-Suffolk Academy, has been taking the American Idol stage by storm.

On Monday night, Marshall, known as Daniel Griffith during his days as a student-athlete at NSA and later at Virginia Tech, advanced to the final 14 on the 20th season of Idol. He was voted by fans as one of the competitions top 10 performers after a Sunday night performance of Garth Brooks Friends in Low Places. After it was announced Monday night that he had advanced, Marshall sang Stuck on You by Lionel Richie, one of the competitions judges. He knocked it out of the park, Richie declared.

Marshall graduated from Nansemond-Suffolk Academy in 2016 after transferring there for his senior year from Western Branch High School. Marshall was a standout football player and recorded 56 tackles and eight sacks in six games his senior year, which was plagued by injuries. He signed as a preferred walk-on at Virginia Tech, where he played football for all four years of college as a linebacker.

He is currently a resident of Chesapeake, where he works as a land surveyor.

I am so grateful for all of the love and support from back home it means the world to me and I cant help but feel so proud of where Im from, Marshall told the News-Herald via social media.

Marshall auditioned for the national competition with The Dance by Brooks and received three yes votes from the judges with comments like You have that storytelling thing from Richie, I think you have some natural-born talent from Katy Perry and Youre one of the best-sounding county artists that have come through from Luke Bryan.

Marshall said hed only been performing live for a few months, the first time being at his grandfathers memorial service. I only started four or five months ago, doing live performances and stuff. Ive been singing my whole life like in my truck, but Ive always been really shy, said Marshall during his introduction.

Since his audition qualified him for the competitions Hollywood Round, Marshall has had some ups and downs. The judges were a little skeptical of his top 24 performance of Heaven by Bryan Adams, but loved Sundays performance of Friends in Low Places, after which Richie asked for free tickets and backstage passes.

Marshall said he has been enjoying the journey.

It has been a wild ride! I am overwhelmed with gratitude and am so blessed to be in the top 14.

The next stage of the competition will be Sunday as the remaining contestants work with country singer Gabby Barrett as a mentor. On Monday, the top 11 will be revealed.

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The California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) issued a recent guidance interpreting the application of the No Surprises Act (NSA)a new federal law prohibiting out-of-network healthcare providers from balance-billing patients for certain emergency and non-emergency servicesin California. Significantly, when determining which payment and dispute resolution processes will apply in a dispute regarding the value of non-contracted emergency and non-emergency services, the NSA expressly defers to existing state law which already protects patients from receiving surprise medical bills, as long as such state laws conform to certain requirements set forth in the NSA. The NSA refers to such qualifying laws as specified State law[s]. However, the NSA does not explicitly indicate which states existing balance billing laws qualify as specified State law[s]rather, each state must independently review the provisions of the NSA to determine if its existing balance billing laws qualify.

The DMHC recently issued an All-Plan Letter (APL) confirming that California law governing health care service plans, as set forth in the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 and its implementing regulations, constitutes specified State law and will continue to govern out-of-network disputes for certain emergency and non-emergency services provided in California, rather than the payment and dispute resolution provisions of the NSA. However, in all states, the NSA governs disputes relating to air ambulance services, not state law.

Background of the NSA

The NSA, which went into effect on January 1, 2022, limits the amount an out-of-network provider can charge for emergency services, nonemergency services provided at in-network facilities, and air ambulance services. When a patient receives services covered by the NSA from an out-of-network provider, the NSA generally caps the patients cost sharing obligation at the median in-network contracted rate that the health plan agreed to pay for similar services from in-network providers for the same services in the same geographic region. In addition, the NSA also creates a dispute resolution process for out-of-network payment disputes. Under the NSAs baseball style dispute resolution process, when providers and payors cannot come to an agreement, each side submits an offer that an approved Independent Dispute Resolution Entity must select between as the final payment amount. The payment and dispute resolution processes of the NSA do not apply to every dispute, however. Before the enactment of the NSA, many states already had surprise billing laws in place, and the NSA does not fully preempt state payment standards. Instead, it expressly defers to the requirements of qualifying specified State law[s]e.g., a qualifying balance billing law as specified by the NSA. The NSA also envisions that states may revise their balance billing laws to qualify as specified State law in response to the passage of the NSA and its implementing regulations. See 86 Fed. Reg. 36,925 (July 13, 2021).

The DMHCs APL Confirms the Application of the NSA in California

On March 21, 2022, the DMHC issued an APL confirming that California law qualifies as specified State law for: (i) non-emergency, noncontracted services at an in-network facility by a noncontracted provider; and (ii) out-of-network emergency services. Federal law governs disputes relating to out-of-network services provided by air ambulance providers.

The DMHC stated that it expects CMS to issue an updated letter consistent with its interpretation of Californias balance billing laws.

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Former National Security Adviser John Hannah argues Ukraine is going to be 'extremely dependent' on massive quantities of Russian arms.

During his appearance on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" Monday, former National Security Adviser John Hannah discussed the ongoing invasion into Ukraine as the West secures weapons for the country amid its war with Russia, arguing Ukraine is the subject of a "massive war we haven't seen the likes of since WWII."

JOHN HANNAH: Ukraine is, you know, the subject of a massive war that we haven't seen anything the likes of since World War II. Russian territory and Russian economic targets are kind of off-limits to the Ukrainians. So this is not really a fair fight

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Ukraine is going to be extremely dependent on both massive, massive quantities of Russian arms, especially with this new offensive coming in the east and the south, and undoubtedly on massive western international financial and economic assistance to keep them fighting another day to ensure that Putin can't achieve his strategic objectives here. It's going to be very, very costly bill for the West and for the United States.

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Washington, Apr 10 (PTI) The US is taking aggressive action to help the Ukrainians succeed on the battlefield and help them have the best possible position at the negotiating table, a top White House national security official said on Sunday.

Speaking to CNN, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US will play a key role in supporting Ukraine against Russia after Moscow attacked its neighbour.

We are taking aggressive action in an effort to both help the Ukrainians succeed on the battlefield and help the Ukrainians have the best possible position at the negotiating table, Sullivan said.

We will continue to do that. We will continue to rally the world in that regard. And the United States will play the key role it has played thus far in the days and weeks ahead, he added.

Referring to the appointment of General Aleksandr Dvornikov as new Russian commander in Ukraine, the US National Security Advisor said that no appointment of any general can erase the fact that Russia has already faced a strategic failure in Ukraine.

They thought that they were going to be able to conquer the capital city and take other major cities with little resistance, that theyd, in fact, be welcomed with open arms. And what we have learned in the first several weeks of this war is that Ukraine will never be subjugated to Russia. It doesnt matter which general President Putin tries to appoint, he said.

Sullivan alleged that the new general has a resume that includes brutality against civilians in other theaters, in Syria.

We can expect more of the same in this theater. But its not something that we need to anticipate looking forward to. As we have already seen it, and we can expect more of it, he alleged.

This general will just be another author of crimes and brutality against Ukrainian civilians. And the United States is determined to do all that we can to support the Ukrainians as they resist him and they resist the forces that he commands, Sullivan said.

President Joe Biden, he said, has been absolutely clear from before this conflict began that the United States is prepared to work with its allies to defend every inch of NATO territory.

That means every inch, including if mines showed up in a Romanian harbour or a Turkish harbour and caused damage or loss of life, he said.

In another interview to ABC News, Sullivan said the images that are being seen out of Bucha and other cities have been tragic, theyve been horrifying, theyve been downright shocking, but they have not been surprising.

We, in fact, before the war began, declassified intelligence and presented it indicating that there was a plan from the highest levels of the Russian government to target civilians who oppose the invasion, to cause violence against them, to organise efforts to brutalise them in order to try to terrorise the population and subjugate it. So this is something that was planned, he said.

Now in addition to that, I think there certainly are cases where individual soldiers or individual units got frustrated because the Ukrainians were beating them back. They had been told they were going to have a glorious victory and just ride into Kyiv without any opposition with the Ukrainians welcoming them. And when that didnt happen, I do think some of these units engaged in these acts of brutality, these atrocities, these war crimes even without direction from above, he said.

Responding to a question on ABC News, Sullivan said that the United States has not reached a determination on genocide.

We havent yet reached a determination on genocide. That is a determination that we work through systematically. There is a unit at the State Department that gathers evidence and then makes a legal analysis because genocide is actually a legal determination, he said.

But lets set legalities aside for a minute. I think we can all say that these are mass atrocities. These are war crimes. These are shocking and brutal acts that are completely unacceptable, beyond the pale for the international community. So whatever label one wants to affix to them, the bottom line is this, there must be accountability. And the United States will work with the international community to make sure theres accountability, he said. PTI LKJ RUP RUP RUP

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ELLICOTT CITY, Md. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area in California, Dr. Tom Glenn originally enlisted in the Army so he could attend the Army Language School later called the Defense Language Institute, or DLI. With a passion and knack for linguistics, Glenn taught himself French and Italian as a child, studied Latin during high school and German during college.

With a craving for more, Glenn enrolled in DLI with the hopes of learning Chinese.

I wanted to go to the best language school in the U.S., maybe in the world, he said. But when I got [there], they told me they werent going to teach me Chinese, they were going to teach me a language I had never heard of: Vietnamese.

Glenn was a Soldier and had to follow orders, so he spent all of 1959 learning Vietnamese. He spent six hours a day in class with two hours of private study each night for a full year.

I graduated first in my class of ten, he said. I asked the Army to send me to Vietnam but [they said] they had nothing going on there. Instead, Glenn was assigned to the National Security Agency, or NSA, at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Still hoping to study Chinese, Glenn enrolled in George Washington University in Washington, D.C. as a part time graduate student. Glenn went on to earn a masters degree in government and a doctorate in public administration.

By the time Glenn finished his enlistment in 1961, he said he was comfortably speaking Vietnamese, Chinese and French; the three main languages spoken in Vietnam.

The NSA immediately offered Glenn a job at five steps above the normal level and sent him to Vietnam for the first time in 1962 as a civilian.

Between 1962 and 1975, I spent more time in Vietnam than in the U.S., he said.

Despite being a civilian, Glenn lived with the military as if he were still a Soldier.

I was one of them sleeping on the ground next to them, eating [field rations while] sitting in the dirt by their side, using their latrines and going into combat with them, he said. I was the only civilian I knew who was willing to put his life on the line by working with the military in combat on the battlefield.

Glenns job was in intelligence; using signals intelligence, intercepting and exploiting the enemys radio communications, informing friendly forces on what enemy force intentions were and where they were.

He says that the strongest human bond hes ever seen was that between two men fighting side by side.

Glenn spent his thirteen years in Vietnam all over the country, wherever combat was going on. He worked most often in central Vietnam, just south of the demilitarized zone that separated North and South Vietnam. The day-to-day was just like any other Soldier in combat.

[The days were] defined by the boredom of waiting and the terror of close combat, he said.

Glenn wants Americans to know the grisly horror of war. He wants citizens to respect and admire service members who put their lives on the line for our good.

After the Vietnam War, Glenns readjustment to civilian life would have been more difficult had he been sent straight home. Instead, he was sent abroad to serve on the battlefield all over the world after Saigon fell in 1975.

Glenn retired from NSA in 1992.

Welcome home, brother

When Glenn meets other Vietnam veterans, he puts his hands on their shoulders and looks them in the eye. They share an experience unknown to other Americans.

For years following the war, many Americans saw Vietnam as the war we never should have been involved in. During those years, Glenn never mentioned his service overseas.

Then, several years ago, I was invited to a welcome-home party for Vietnam veterans, he said. After some hesitation, I went. A bunch of young people, who hadnt even been born before the end of [the war], shook my hand, hugged me and thanked me for my service.

Glenn urges other Americans to approach those who served and thank them. Only then will that service member know that their service is worthy of gratitude.

Award-winning author

The real adjustment [came] thirty years ago when I retired as early as I could [to] write full time, Glenn said. I was so intent on writing that the transition was a relief rather than an adjustment.

Glenns first book is titled Friendly Casualties and consists of a collection of short stories to highlight the horrors of war. He chose to write about Vietnam because of his post-traumatic stress injuries, or PTSI. [It] wounded my soul, he said.

He learned that the only way to survive his injuries was to face the memories head-on. The best way to force himself to face those memories was to write it all down, which has resulted in six books and 17 short stories as of March 2022.

Glenns books are categorized as fact-based fiction which he said is the only way he could delve into the emotions [he] lived through in real life. He said hes lived through experiences far more compelling than anything completely made up.

I want people to know what [it was like], he said. I needed to vent, to stand face-to-face with my memories and learn to live with them.

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