Donald E. Zlotnik

Zlotnik began his military career as a private soldier, completing Special Forces training in 1965 and then being assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group where he made Soldier of the Year and was sent to OCS in 1966.

He served nine years with the United States Army Special Forces with 31 months in combat during the Vietnam War. He served as the executive officer of two Special Forces A Teams; Duc-Co (A-253) and My-An (A-426) and he served with the elite MACV-SOG's operation--Command and Control North (CCN).

Zlotnik also served with the elite 173rd Airborne Brigade during the Battle for Dak-To (1967) that produced three Medal of Honor holders and sixteen Distinguished Service Cross recipients.

Zlotnik is authorized to wear three personal Presidential Unit Citations and remains very proud to have served in combat with such fine units. Zlotnik also wears The Soldier's Medal, the army's highest award for valor/heroism not involving combat, nick-named "The Peactime Medal of Honor." Three Bronze Stars (Valor, Achievement and Meritorious Service.) and The Purple Heart.

He left the military and was hired by the General Dynamics Corporation as an executive where he served as a public relations director marketing the highly successful M-1 and M1-A1 Abrams main battle tank.

Zlotnik published more than 350 weekly newspaper columns under his own byline: THOUGHTS FROM THE RIGHT, in two metro-Detroit newspapers.

Zlotnik founded his own treatment level foster care agency in 2000 to help troubled teenagers find and focus on a positive success-based future. He retired "totally disgusted with the foster care system and those who perpetuate abuse from within the system" in 2003.

Adjunct Professor Zlotnik taught in three universities being fired from each of them for not being politically correct after being rated in the top 5% by both peers, students and senior faculty. Zlotnik is a strong believer in equality for all under the law and achievement based on one's ability--PERIOD!

Quotes from Zlotnik:

"I seek the truth--she is a tough mistress and only honorable men can stand by her."

"The basis for all education must be on the truth or as close to the truth as the educator can come. When the truth is manipulated by an educational institution to meet social experiments or to make special interest groups feel better about themselves--then education fails the student and the student fails the Nation."

"One cannot have over two million words in print without having their personality exposed; all of my novels speak of; honor, truth and doing the right thing when others do not."

"At First

The Lie

is more believable

than the truth

because

The Lie

can be molded

to fit the ear

of the Listener."

Zlotnik has lived eleven years overseas in; Italy, Germany and Southeast Asia and is constantly expanding his knowledge on different subjects he selects to write about and has established an extensive network of; company executives, government employees, mercenaries and savants from around the world.

Currently, Zlotnik researches and writes novel manuscripts and spec movie scripts.