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Interested in book review: EMPIRE: Book Two of the Victors Saga (September 15, 2026) Heather Buchanan 979-8-234-16061-4 Aquarius Press LLC September 15, 2026 Synopsis The sequel to Victors: A Novel of Love, War and Jazz by Heather Buchanan. A story of heroes that bridges two World Wars... In 1945 France, retired Sergeant David Pierce, African American soldier and hero of World War I, is called into service once again. Paris has fallen to the German empire, and it is a deadly battle for survival for all who believe in freedom. David sets out to rescue his son Paul, a Tuskegee Airman, who has been shot down and imprisoned by the Germans. Carrying the weight of a tragic love, David must move heaven and earth to save his son. In his fight, David reawakens a personal war with his enemy from World War I, German scientist Bruno Hoffman, who is building a weapon of unspeakable horror. In David's odyssey this time around, he has a powerful asset—the alluring entertainer and French spy, Josephine Baker. Together, they fight to not only win the war, but to save the world.

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@Troy Thanks for your insightful feed back and kind words. Knowing you, and my affiliation with this forum have been among the most engrossing pass times of my life, my window to the world, providing me with an outlet where I could be a free spirit, liberated from the restrictions of dull conventionallity. Equally gratifying are all the special friends I've made here over the years, not to mention the enemies.(As for Pioneer, - he's the inspiration for the question that asks: "who says you have to like everybody?") He's actually an incentive to stay alive inasmuch as once I'm gone, he can control the narrative and - truth will become the casualty! Bwahahahaha! 😜 Anyway, I feel better today, recovered enough to take my daily walk. But tomorrow I could be hardly able to rise, much less shine. Whatever. So be it. I'm cool. Old age really ain't that much fun. Gotta be a better place to be. Meanwhile, peace and love! ✌️🫶

You haven't signed out of life either.

I don’t it’s just good design, thought the design itself may have been AI generated. From my perspective, the technology that we have been given has increased so dramatically in such a short period of time it is impossible to imagine this all comes from the handiwork of Homo sapiens. I know the software I have is unbelievable and it is effectively free. I know when something so powerful or useful is free that old rule, we are the product applies and that the many hours I've spend using AI will be used to train the models so that they will learn how to better manipulate us and take our data and ideas. The software I have is extremely powerful. I can’t imagine what the they are working within the labs with the frontier models--who some say are sentient. So @aka Contrarian ANYTHING is possible with AI who knows what it’s capable of now. I’m sure every user's experience is very different and that is by design. We can’t collectively come up with a coherent description of it's capabilities because everyone sees AI differently. Connie, it makes me sad to think that your time here may be short. I will definitely miss you. That is assuming I don’t check out before you do ;-) I’m glad we got to meet in person albeit briefly. I wish you could meet Del in person—Mel too. Or catch a bears game with @ProfD If I could, I would even host the Obama style beer summit with you and Pioneer😊