Book Description

The Author: Robert J. Joling, J.D. A World War II veteran of the 20th Air Force, 314th Heavy Bombardment Wing, 19th Bomb Group, 28th Squadron, B-29 group stationed on Guam, Bob was a recipient of the Presidential Unit Citation. Born Lynden, Washington; raised Austinville, Iowa and Kenosha, Wisconsin; Bob attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan and Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Licensed to practice law before Wisconsin Supreme Court, Eastern and Western Federal District Courts 1951, & Arizona Federal District Court 1972; 7th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and United States Supreme Court 1956. In 1971, he joined the original faculty of the University of Arizona medical school in Tucson, Arizona as Associate Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. Bob returned to trial practice in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1976. After 20 years he left active trial practice being appointed as a Municipal Court Judge, a position he filled for the next 5 years. For more than 50 years, Bob has been active in forensic sciences; is a Fellow (1961), Past President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (1975-76); Founder and Chairperson of the Forensic Sciences Foundation; former Member of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences and an Associate in Law of the American College of Legal Medicine. Published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, The Saturday Evening Post, Argosy Magazine, Bob has appeared in numerous radio and television shows and lectured to educational & professional associations throughout the USA and Europe. The Author: Michael S. Joling, B.A. Michael is referred to as a “renaissance man.” He has more than 15 years of formal Christian education and holds a degree in English from Wisconsin Lutheran College of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also attended Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota. Michael has worked in a variety of settings including that of a sheet metal mechanic, ironworker, fast food cook, high school and grade school teacher, facility manager, business manager, and paralegal. Michael has studied Christian doctrine and literary theory, authored literary critiques and has studied the effective methodologies for teaching critical thinking. Recently, Michael was certified as paralegal after successfully completing the requirements at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. At the present time, Michael is continuing to work on a Christian philosophy manuscript tentatively titled Readers in the Dark. Michael’s credo is: “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your power. Pray for power equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.”