📗 About the AuthorDavid Kingman was born in the USA, in 1942. Throughout his life, he has been actively performing his unique brand of Country & Western Music in taverns, hotels and parks, throughout the country. When David was a young man, he began working as a studio photographer, and later after joining the military, he served in Vietnam, as a U.S. Army Photographer and Photo Lab Technician. After 23 years of working in the Sales Division of a local cemetery, David was forced to retire as a result of his mental disability, and presently lives with his wife, Dottie in Dayton, Ohio. In Vietnam, David began to suffer mentally from the affects of such a hostile environment, his nerves, under combat conditions, eventually forced him to seek psychiatric counseling for his depression, anxiety, fears, PTSD, panic attacks & continual thoughts of suicide. Since David left the military, he has been under the care of private psychologist, and presently, he remains under the guidance and supervision of the Veteran's Administration Mental Health Doctors, 100% disabled. David Kingman's constant companion for the past twenty years has been writing. He wrote a 300 page book featuring more than 500 biographies of prominent local citizens buried in Dayton, (The Shrines of Woodland) which was purchased by the historic cemetery. David's Science Fiction Book, (RAL, SPACE COLONIZER) reflects his life and mental health issues, as visualized through the eyes of Ral, the books mai...