[Oe List ...] David Marshall's IRON BOY Launches Today

[Richard Alton]

I don't remember having an Iron Man statue in the houses I was in.. but it
was a long time ago.
Dick

On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM ML Jones via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Yes David, There was an Iron Man statue in every Religious House.
> Congratulations on your book. I have ordered it, Mary Laura Jones
>
> Mary Laura Jones
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>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM David Marshall via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear Former Order Colleagues & Friends,
>>
>> Sunday “House Church” Blastoff! (Father’s Day - appropriate launch day
>> since Order fathers loom large in this book)
>>
>> IRON BOY is officially for sale today on Amazon as both a paperback and
>> e-book.
>>
>> The Iron Man statue is still alive and well in Fifth City sixty years
>> later. In 2021, I visited Chicago with my wife, daughter, son, and their
>> partners, and we all went to visit Fifth City and the Iron Man—they for the
>> first time. Attached are some photos, of me in front of the Iron Man with
>> the Program Center in the background where I took part of the Academy, the
>> still-running “Iron Man Can” Fifth City Preschool, and my old elementary
>> school, now renamed Leif Ericson Scholastic Academy.
>>
>> Also a vintage wintertime Iron Man statue photo that I used for the front
>> cover of IRON BOY.
>>
>> And finally a little artifact from that era I just received. I visited my
>> 93-year old dad Gene and 91-year-old step-mom Joyce in Texas recently, and
>> they gave me this seven-inch-tall metal Iron Man statute that they had
>> picked up along the way from the Wichita Religious House. Did all the
>> Religious Houses have one?
>>
>> When I raise up my hands like the Iron Man, I think of these words from
>> the Order song, “Free, free, free to decide, what this world is going to
>> be.” We've still got a lot of work to do!
>>
>> Much appreciation for putting up with my 10-week House Church countdown
>> to IRON BOY’s debut. If you read it, or share it with others, please let me
>> know the impact. You can obtain both the paperback and e-book now on
>> Amazon, and through other bookstores soon.
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/IRON-BOY-Searching-Freedom-Religious/dp/B0FCMMVHDC
>>
>> Grace & Peace,
>>
>> David Marshall, www.marshallbooks.net
>>
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