Book Stirs Old Memories for Reader Who Served in Army

Published under the headline, Military Justice Gone Bad, another 5-star customer review appeared yesterday on the Amazon.com page for Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice.  The text of that review appears below:

My experience with the military, came in 1968 when I was drafted into the U.S. Army.  I felt then, and I feel now, a great sense of compassion for ALL our military personnel. All the grunts, sailors and marines, serving for us. That same respect does not necessarily apply to “the Brass.” The higher ranking officers, and sometimes NCOs. Most of the ones I met over 40 years ago, could care less about the average soldier. “Three Days In August” brought all those feelings back.

This well told story, shows how easy it is to ruin a good person’s life, with little or no concern for the individual or his family, and with no regard at all for his previous service to his country. In civilian life, there are checks and balances, meager as they may be. But the military is like a country unto itself. Self-governing. With very little oversite by our “crack” government. This is a travesty, that made my blood boil, with each turn of a page. It was tough to read, and impossible to put down. As tough as it was, I thank Bob McCarty for bringing it to our attention. The more people that read this book, hopefully, the more that will contact our government on behalf of SFC Kelly Stewart.

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‘I strongly recommend this book’ – Another Five-Star Review

Another five-star customer review of my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice, appeared yesterday on the book’s page at Amazon.com.

The review begins this way:

“I have read every word in Bob McCarty’s 283-page barn-burner, ‘Three Days in August,’ featuring a military trial gone a muck where one of America’s finest Special Forces service men was falsely painted as a monster of perversion, hard sex torture, physical violence and subjected to a tainted trial by Americans in a venue where he should have found true justice, but didn’t come close to getting it.”

It ends this way:

“I strongly recommend this book. Parents should place a copy in the hands of any child leaving home to serve in the military. This account just might give one pause before straying off the straight and narrow.”

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‘One Might Mistake It For A John Grisham Novel’

Today at Bungalow Bill’s Conservative Wisdom, Missouri blogger Clay Bowler published an extremely positive review of my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice.  An excerpt of his review appears below:

Once you pick up Three Days in August, you are going to have a hard to putting it down. Kudos to my friend Bob McCarty for defending Stewart and writing a book that challenges the United States government and the US Army with the hope that one day Sgt. First Class Kelly Stewart’s life will be fully returned to him and the titles given to him but never earned or proven will one day be dropped from his record. If this book didn’t have McCarty’s name on it, one might mistake it for a John Grisham novel. Unfortunately, it’s not. It’s the true story of how a decorated soldier’s life changed forever over a lie and the Army’s desire to make an example out of this soldier.

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Reviewer Wonders If Movie Deal Could Be In Book’s Future

The positive reviews of my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice, keep pouring in from across the globe!  Today, I received a review via email from Jane Van Ryan in suburban Washington, D.C.  Her words appear below:

Jane Van Ryan

Author Bob McCarty tells a searing story of a perversion of justice. Army Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart swore to protect his country only to suffer indignity at the hands of a military court. In this classic case of he said/she said, it is clear that “the system” abrogated its responsibility to a man in uniform at the pinnacle of his career because it was more interested in political correctness than the truth. This book is an excellent read for everyone who supports our troops. Could a movie be in McCarty’s future?

I respect Van Ryan’s opinion for many of the same reasons I respect that of Richard Miniter, who recently offered a glowing review of the book.

Like Miniter, Van Ryan is an author [See The Seduction of Miss Evelyn Hazen].  In addition, however, her diverse career in media has included work as an award-winning broadcast journalist — including several years experience in Washington, D.C. — and more than two decades of success as a communications executive.  In short, she knows how to communicate.

Thanks, Jane, for the kind words!  And, yes, a movie could very well be in this book’s future.  Stay tuned for details!

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NY Times Best-Selling Author Praises ‘Three Days In August’

Richard Miniter, the award-winning investigative journalist, best-selling author, radio host, public speaker and frequent world traveler, informed me weeks ago that he had finished reading my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice.  Today, however, he made time in his busy schedule to offer some words he said I could use to promote the book:

Richard Miniter

“Well-written and thoroughly researched, Three Days In August paints a convincing portrait of a military justice process that appears to have lacked one essential element – justice.” – Richard Miniter

Coming from a guy like Miniter, those words mean a lot. After all, he’s the author of two New York Times bestsellers on terrorism — Losing Bin Laden and Shadow War: The Untold Story of How America is Winning the War on Terror — and his latest book, Mastermind, is the first biography of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – who planned the Sept. 11 attacks and virtually every other major Al-Qaeda attack.

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American Legion Publishes Positive Review of Book

Good news!  Today, the American Legion’s Burnpit published a 1,700-word article about the book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice, which chronicles the life story and wrongful conviction of former Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart.

The article, written by Army war veteran and lawyer Mark Seavey, is one of the best articles to date about the book and ends with a recommendation for readers to buy the book.  Couldn’t agree more!

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Review: ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’

Another five-star review of the book, Three Days in August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice by Bob McCarty, appeared yesterday on the book’s page at Amazon.com:

My father was very, very proud of the United States of America. He instilled in me a love for this great country of ours. I am in awe of the sacrifices that our military men and women make to defend our freedoms. This book was riveting from beginning to end. There were many times when I said out loud “you’ve got to be kidding me!” It is as if all of the facts regarding Army Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart’s case were just ignored! It’s unfathomable to me that we, as a country, can treat a decorated soldier in such a fashion. He DID do something wrong. He admitted that several times. But I do not believe for one minute that he is guilty of what he was charged with. It is my hope that enough people will read this book and write to their Congressmen and women to try to get a retrial for this war hero. His wife is a special forces agent as well and she doesn’t deserve the hand she has been dealt either. It’s a MUST read!

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Reviews Continue to Roll In for ‘Three Days In August’

Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice continues to receive positive reviews from readers who purchased the book via Amazon.com.

On Jan. 6, reader “bcallaway” described the book as “A story of a warrior left behind” and went on to write the following review:

Rarely do we get the opportunity to go back in time and un-do a bad decision. Sergeant First Class Kelly Stewart could not have imagined all of the consequences that would be the result of a night of indescretion and infidelity. However, the treatment of SFC Stewart by the military justice system is beyond disturbing. I cannot fathom a conviction based on the lone testimony of a woman with a questionable psychological background. I cannot fathom a conviction with no medical or physical evidence being presented. I cannot fathom a conviction with no corroborating testimony and I cannot fathom the treatment that SFC Kelly received not only on foreign soil, but even in the shameful way he was transported to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Bob McCarty does a great job of telling SFC Kelly’s story along with the actual court martial testimony and inner workings of a system that truly let down one our country’s true warriors.

A poor life decision? Absolutely, without question. But our fighting military deserves better than this. Thank you for bringing this story to light, Bob. Well written and meticulously researched.

On Jan. 7, “Marcone” shared his opinion of the book in a review under the headline, “Can you handle the truth?”  The wording of that review appears below:

Three Days in August is a cross between A Few Good Men and Grisham’s The Innocent Man.  On more than one occasion while reading the book I found myself thinking about that famous line, “You can’t handle the truth!” A life was turned upside down in one night. Prepare to be shocked.

Do yourself a favor: If you haven’t done so yet, buy a copy of this book so you can (1) learn more about the highly-decorated combat veteran at the center of this case and (2) read never-before-published details about this case of military justice gone awry.

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Latest Review: ‘Army Destroys Much-Decorated Green Beret’

The first few words of its headline, Army destroys much-decorated Green Beret, could have stood on their own, but they weren’t the end of the decidedly-positive review of my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice, at MilitaryCorruption.com.  Below is an excerpt from that just-published piece:

The two most odious words in the U.S. Army today should be “politically correct.”

Because Army brass wanted to soothe strained relations with the locals, prosecutors railroaded a much-decorated Green Beret NCO into a prison cell based on suspect testimony.

Former SFC Kelly Stewart was the unlucky soldier who got hammered because “justice” was denied in his court-martial.

The combat vet flipped out when he heard he’d been found guilty, and fled from authorities. He was on the lam for three days in Germany.

Stewart wisely turned himself in, but by then, the damage was done and he ended up with an eight-year prison sentence.

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Green Beret’s Story ‘Unreal’

Another five-star customer review appeared today on the Amazon.com page for the book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice, by Bob McCarty.  Below is an excerpt from that review, which appeared under the header, “Unreal”:

I recently purchased and read THREE DAYS IN AUGUST by Bob McCarty. I didn’t expect to finish it after reading a few pages … but if YOU have read the book, you understand how compelling it was … as well (as) hard to believe that such a thing could happen to an outstanding soldier.

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