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

[Susan Fertig]

David, I took my RS-1 the first time in 1971. It was very much still available.

Susan

Susan Fertig-Dykes

And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought .  Isaiah 58:11

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

Whoops, that last message about Order Kids’ structures was meant for Wesson. As an OE listserv newbie, I’m still trying to navigate.

Responding to Debra’s comment, that’s one of the reasons I was compelled to write IRON BOY, to give a first-hand account from a child’s and teenager’s perspective from the beginning. Many friends, family, co-works and history buffs over multiple generations have heard about those early days in the Order, but I suspect much of it was second-, third-, or fourth-hand. It’s like playing Telephone as a kid. By the time the secret sentence whispered in each year gets to the end of the line, it’s a far cry from what the original child said.

Another motivator for me: I wondered how many folks who joined the ICA in the 1970s and later ever knew what RS-1 was or could measure its direct or indirect impact for themselves if it was not longer available. Many readers may be surprised that an RS-1 primer is embedded inside IRON BOY for that very reason, albeit from an 11-year-old’s perspective. Many EI/ICA alumni may still ask today how much of RS-1 could be understood by a child or teenager. I’ll attempt to answer that in a listserv post this coming weekend.

David, Moraga, CA

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On Jun 19, 2025, at 7:38 PM, Debra Harris via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
 I ordered it on Kindle and just started reading it- thank you David for your perspective and insights.

I encountered and joined the Order in 1984 when I was 26 and often wondered what is was like to grow up in the Order, especially in the earlier years.

Sincerely,
Debra Harris Watson
Houston


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On Thursday, June 19, 2025, 7:26 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
They weren't very big . . .

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On Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:32:46 PM MST, Richard Alton via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:


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<mailto: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

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On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM David Marshall via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto: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<http://www.marshallbooks.net>

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