Marines Don't Cry by Daniel Garcia and Jacqueline C. Garcia

 Please welcome Daniel Garcia and Jacqueline C. Garcia author of Marines Don't Cry

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Marines Don't Cry

by Daniel Garcia and Jacqueline C. Garcia

 

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GENRE: Memoir, Non-fiction

 

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INTERVIEW:

Why did you write the book? 

            As a result of walking by foot around the world for several decades and meeting all kinds of people, such as the poorest of the poorest and the richest of the richest, many people in different countries asked me, “Can I have a copy of our book?”  

            Dec 7, 2021 marks 25 years of this life, walking and praying for children and world peace.  52,000,000 steps on six continents.  People ask, “How did you do it?” 

            As I experienced many harrowing stories, I felt God telling me, “Write the book.” Actually, it was an idea I had before I starting walking in 1996, that my life would be a walk, a book, a documentary, a movie, and a concert.

What is the book about?

            This book is about death and life.  It is about healing.  It is about God and about me, a Marine, what I went through and how God changed me.  It is about how God communicates with me and how I responded.  His joy, his forgiveness, his peace.  This book is about receiving the love of God when I was lost, and I didn’t even know I was lost. 

Would I be obedient or disobedient?  I learned that when I was disobedient, I experienced pain.  When I was obedient to what God is telling me, I experienced miracles.

Where did you get the idea for this book?

            The idea of “Marines Don’t Cry” is both from God and from people that I met along the highways and byways.  These people are part of my life, my journey, my healing.   Since I was a young kid in New York City, my escape was going to the movies.  I would be caught up in the stories.  So, I wondered what would it be like to tell the story of my life, raised in the ghettos of New York to walking by foot around the world.  

Why is your book being released now (Dec 2022)?

            Look at the events in the world today:  division, pandemic, death, corruption, greed.  People are losing hope and don’t know where to turn.  Marines Don’t Crytells the reader what I did to regain hope in devastating events.  The alternative would have been suicide – I chose life; therefore, I chose God. I wanted to live, and the only one who could give me hope was God.  

Why do you believe God picked you?

            I really don’t know “why me” or why anybody.  I know that I needed God, a father, someone to teach me, to save me from myself.   I believe that before I was born, the Almighty already knew who I was, what I was going to do in my life, and how I would be chosen to impact the world with hope.  It is humbling to receive the favor of God, to have his hand upon one’s life.  It is compelling and overpowering.  This is something we had to write about and share with the world.

BLURB:

 

Have you ever been lost -- really lost?

 

Danny and Jackie answer this question in Marines Don’t Cry with stories of death to life, deep sorrow to joy, darkness to light, and freedom in Christ.

 

Danny recounts his early life in Spanish Harlem and describes conversion from a life of drugs and “the fast lane” to one consumed with knowing and serving God. This makes his journey of walking more than 52 million steps on six continents for children and world peace such an incredible story.

 

Marines Don’t Cry is about the transformational power of God’s love: how Danny found his calling and is delivering the message of Christ at all costs.

 

 

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EXCERPT:

 

Chapter 7: “You Must Choose Now”

 

One night in my living room, under the influence of several drugs and alcohol, I experienced something bizarre and frightening. Something happened to me, and I knew that something was terribly wrong. In a moment, I felt my spirit leaving my body; a wrenching separation and tearing from deep within. Life literally came out of my body. My feet lifted from the floor. I levitated upwards and felt myself being pulled out of this world. It was an out-of-body experience. I did not feel physical pain, but I knew I was dying. All my life, I had been in control and never let fear consume me. Now, I was terrified.

 

I panicked.

 

My thoughts raced. I knew that if I died, I would go to hell because of all the bad things I had done in my life. I learned in Catholic school that if I died in the state of mortal sin, I was destined for hell, a place of eternal fire and torment. Eternity flashed before me, and I heard an audible voice through time, space, and spirit say:

 

“Which way do you choose? Life or death? You must choose now.”

 

The voice enveloped my thoughts. In a flash, the Lord gave me a choice of life or death, and it was a choice of both physical and spiritual proportions. Although I had not been in church for over twenty-five years, I knew I was lost, had no hope, and was going to hell. I was completely petrified, and for the first time in my entire life, I was truly afraid and frightened beyond my understanding.

 

With a desperate cry, I screamed, “Jesus, save me!”

 

As soon as I said the name “Jesus,” my spirit immediately jumped back into my body. I experienced the terrible fear of God. To this point in my life, I paid no attention to the teachings that the Catholic church instilled in me. I had turned away from Him and disobeyed His laws.

 

By calling on the name of Jesus Christ, I chose life. I was saved spiritually; the moment of my salvation from death and beginning the transformation to a new life. This was a miracle. I was thirty-three years old—the same age as Jesus when he started his public ministry.

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

About the authors of Marines Don’t Cry

 

Daniel Garcia

 

Danny Garcia, The Walking Man, was born and raised in New York’s Spanish Harlem.  He served as a United States Marine, law enforcement officer, and ordained minister. Since 1996, he has prayed and walked over 52,000, 000 steps on six continents for children and world peace. During his journeys, Garcia met with dignitaries all over the world, ministering to the famous and to the poorest of the poor.  Danny made presentations to Kings/royals, Presidents, and other world leaders, to include four Presidents of the USA, several Prime Ministers of other countries, the Pope, Mother Teresa, Ambassadors and various eminent personalities and multilateral organizations.  Garcia began his journey as a personal commitment to peace and children and continued walking and raising funds for multiple charitable organizations.

 

Danny is married to the former Jacqueline Charsagua of El Paso, TX, and they work side by side to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.  For more information, visit Danny’s website, www.globalwalk.cc.

 

Jackie Charsagua Garcia

 

Jackie Charsagua Garcia is married to Daniel Garcia.  She graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, in 1985 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.  Jackie holds a Bachelor of Science in Management and a Master of Science in Human Resources Management.  While in the US Air Force, Jackie specialized in communications, acquisition, systems engineering, and information technology.  

 

After a rewarding and fulfilling Air Force career, she retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the summer of 2006, having spent more than 21 years on active duty. Since 2006, she has supported and advised on all aspects of her husband’s walks and charitable initiatives within the United States and abroad.  She joined Danny during his Africa Walk in 2007 and ministered in South Africa, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Southern Sudan.  During this time, her faith and reliance on God grew tremendously under the mentorship of Danny Garcia. The Global Walk experience gave Jackie an opportunity to serve God abroad, and her vision is to spread the hope, love, and the grace of Jesus Christ through her writing.  She is a native of El Paso, TX, mother of one amazing daughter, and a breast cancer survivor. 

 

Websites: 

https://marinesdontcry.com    

https://www.globalwalk.cc

 

Facebook:  

https://www.facebook.com/dannygarciawalkingman/          

https://www.facebook.com/groups/263639465513321

https://www.facebook.com/jackiecharsagua.garcia

 

Instagram:  

https://www.instagram.com/dannyg_walking man/

https://www.instagram.com/jackiecg_usafa85/

 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBYOx4vqntVWUtW8pnefqg/videos

 

YouTube link of an interview with Danny and Jackie for the Veterans History Project: https://youtu.be/tiJV0RdVmis

 

Linked In: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-c-garcia/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-walk-inc/

 

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