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  <name><![CDATA[F.D. Crandall]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I was born and raised in Miami, Florida.  During Vietnam, I joined the Marine Corps the day I turned seventeen.  I was honorably discharged in 1975, and then served several more years in both the Army and Air National Guard’s.

After a career in law enforcement covering twenty-plus years, I turned to writing as a therapeutic alternative to offset the high blood pressure, bad heart, and hypertension I was left with.

After several short stories and some technical report writing that wasn’t satisfying my needs, I dove into fiction.  That did the trick and “The Measure of a Man” was the result. 
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  <title><![CDATA[The Measure of a Man]]></title>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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