Bill Glose

Bill Glose is an American journalist, poet, and fiction writer. Bill has been published in 8 of the 9 volumes Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors. In this episode, we dive deep into Bill’s experience as a paratrooper assigned to the 82nd Airborne and his service as a combat platoon leader in the Gulf War. We discuss when and why he started writing about his combat experiences, his post-army years working in factories across the country, and his decision to walk away from a production career to become a full-time freelance writer. In this segment, Bill reads the following excerpts from Proud to Be: “Raised by Black Scorpions” from PTB, Volume 5 “What the Bomb Wants?” from PTB, Volume 8