About Floyd

Floyd served 3 years in the Army, 1966-1969. During that time he was almost sent to Israel to aid the Israelis in the "Six Day Way" in June, 1967, In July, 1967, he was sent with his unit to Detroit to help the politicians stop the riots. In December, 1967, his entire unit went to Vietnam. A Company, 502nd, 101st Airborne Division. Wounded on his 20th birthday, he refused to leave the field until Lt. Pershing ordered him to do so. The doctors dug out 11 pieces of shrapnel from his back. Returned to the field six weeks later to discover that Pershing had died on February 17. On Floyd's last day in combat, his company (200+) surrounded 600 North Vietnamese Regulars. Floyd's squad took point. Eleven of his men died that day. He sustained three wounds during the battle. He wouldn't leave his men in the field as long as he could fight. He was awarded a Bronze Star, an Army Commendation medal and four purple hearts, three on that last day. After eight months of recuperation in Colorado, he spent his last eight months at Ft. Bragg, NC, in the 82nd Airborne Division.

Floyd met Christine in college. They lived in Austria for 15 years and traveled extensively. They became fluent in German, and spent over a year in Russia, adding Russian as one of the languages they attempt to speak. They returned to the USA, where Floyd entered official academia, and he has been teaching intercultural studies ever since (plus German and international relations, and world religions). Having received enough degrees to freeze a polar bear (two bachelor’s degrees, two and a half master’s degrees, and one PhD), he and Christine retired in 2024 to a small house in the country in Western Montana. He has eight grandchildren whom he tortures with his stories of his travels. After publishing “Death Came Calling, But I Wasn’t Home,” he switched to writing nonfiction. This is Floyd’s first novel, which he hopes to turn into a series. He has a strong aversion to injustice and believes that God wants us to protect the weak.