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Personal Information
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First Name
Robert
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Last Name
Mitchell
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Gender
Male
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Birthday
September 10, 1945
Personal Details
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About Me
In 1966, the military draft plucked me out of Architecture school, and I became a combat helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War. My 12-year odyssey from war to reintegration is told in my two-volume memoir, JOURNEY TO MYRTOS (reviewed in Kirkus Reviews) and THE TRIALS OF THE INITIATE.
In 1978, I began a 27-year teaching career in junior high and high school math, English, history, and art in Illinois, California and Maryland. My degrees are in mathematics and education. My doctoral thesis was in the History of Consciousness and was developed into my first book on education: NURTURING THE SOULS OF OUR CHILDREN: Education and the Culture of Democracy.
I retired from classroom teaching in 2006. My two book memoir of reintegration after the Vietnam War was published in 2011-2012. I continue to write and lecture on the subjects of the Warrior Spirit and Education. I currently reside in a suburb of Washington DC.