"I write because something deep inside keeps telling me that I have stories to tell. I am now living in my eighth decade, and carry the memories of a depression childhood, and a twenty plus year career in the Marine Corps, where I served my country in two wars. I am a survivor of the sinking of the heavy cruiser that Herman Wouk used as a setting for his novel "War and Remembrance", and of a forty-eight year relationship with Martha Louise, my friend, lover, and wife. Besides being a career Marine, I have been a thrill Show stunt driver, a carnival roustabout, and an executive in the trucking industry. The job I miss the most is that of being a Marine. I have studied creative writing at Butte Junior College, and as an audit student at California State University Chico. I am currently working on a novel about life in the Marine Corps." (Bob Musa, Aug 9, 1996)
