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Jim Parker was born in Ohio, grew up in Massachusetts, and has lived in nine states and two foreign countries. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1973 and served approximately eighteen months with the 18th Airborne Corps Artillery at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, before attending and graduating from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1975. He served nearly ten years as both an enlisted soldier and an officer, with tours in South Korea and Germany. Parker is a direct descendant of Reverend John Williams, the Deerfield, Massachusetts, minister who was taken captive during the French and Indian raid of 1704 and author of ""The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion,"" one of America's first bestsellers. Stephen Williams, John's son, survived the same raid as a nine-year-old boy and went on to become the first minister of what is now known as the First Church of Christ in Longmeadow, Massachusetts - where Jim Parker grew up attending that very church and served as the president of the youth fellowship program when he was a senior in high school. The Williams family legacy of surviving captivity, bearing witness, and telling uncomfortable truths runs deep in his history. And he likes to think it still does. Despite his family history with religion, Parker is agnostic - a fact he states openly and without apology. But he respects genuine Christianity, the kind that follows what Jesus actually taught rather than the weaponized political brand that uses his name while doing the opposite of what he commanded. He believes you don't have to be Christian to recognize that the teachings of Jesus - feed the hungry, care for the sick, welcome the stranger, protect children, and tell the truth - are a reasonable standard for evaluating people who govern us. In 2025, three events shook Parker out of the frustration most Americans were feeling and sent him into action. He attended his fiftieth OCS reunion at Fort Benning, surrounded by men who had taken the same oath he had - an oath with no expiration date. He flew to Washington, D.C., on an honor flight, walking among the graves at Arlington of people who gave everything for the country he has been watching be dismantled. And he traveled back to South Korea with nearly a hundred fellow veterans to see how the nation had transformed itself in fifty years - while America argued about whether its own democracy was worth defending. He came home and started writing. Parker is a grandfather who thinks about the country he's leaving behind and a veteran whose oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies - foreign and domestic - didn't come with a shelf life. ""Cowards and Traitors"" is the book that came from that conviction. His second book, ""For Maya,"" is scheduled for release later this year. Where ""Cowards and Traitors"" looks at what has gone wrong, ""For Maya"" looks forward - making the case that the measure of a generation isn't what it builds for itself but what it leaves for the ones that follow. It's a book about thinking about your grandchildren instead of quarterly earnings and about what becomes possible when we stop asking, ""What's in it for me?"" and start asking, ""What kind of world do they inherit?""

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