Patrick McLaughlin

   A decorated combat veteran, now an award-winning author, McLaughlin spent 1967 in Vietnam with the Dogface Battalion of the Army's storied Big Red One. Following active duty, he graduated from Ohio University then Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

   McLaughlin, a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, having been appointed by President Ronald Reagan, is a retired Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. 

   Patrick has been inducted into the Ohio Military Hall of Fame, and the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame. He writes from Cleveland where he resides with his wife Christine.