Javelin Thrower

Anthony Michael Villanueva is a retired nurse anesthetist with thirty years of combined combat and civilian trauma care. His father and father in law were survivors of the Normandy beach landing depicted in Saving Private Ryan (father-in-law was a medic). The author and his father had many discussions about the "what if's" of that morning on Omaha Beach. Historically, the battle could have gone in any direction depending on circumstances beyond mortal control. Anthony earned his B.S. in Anesthesia from George Washington University, but it was his affiliation at the University of Texas in an associate faculty position teaching the history of anesthesia that he developed and honed his interest in the past. He now enjoys a quiet retirement in Folsom, CA, which has given him the time to work on his writing and play with history as it might have been.