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Richard Allen Saare, born December 30, 1953 at Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa, California to Pat and James Saare. At the age of 2 Mr. Saare was adopted by his Stepfather Dennis C. Abel, thus changing his name to Richard Abel. He attended Rincon Valley Jr. High and Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California until Graduating in 1972. After high school Richard drifted for a couple of years and joined the United States Coast Guard in January 1974. He was personally involed in hundreds of Small Boat Search and Rescue Missions in Small Boat Rescue Station Jonesport, Maine; Race Point Coast Guard Station, Provincetown, Masachuttes; Woodshole Coast Guard Small Boat Search and Rescue Station. He also served briefly as an Engineer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bibb, WHEC 31 on a Drug Enforcement Patrol in the Carribean.

After his discharge he moved to New York and married Chris N. but this was a marriage destined for failure in 1980. Collecting the little effects he returned to Santa Rosa and subsequently re-enlisted in the United Staes Navy. After OS-Vet Reclassification he served for several months as a Shore Patrol and Brig Escort at Treasure Island, Naval Station, San Francisco. After which he served aboard the U.S.S. Barbour County L.S.T. 1195 and completed nearly the entire West-Pac before being injured and sent to Cubi Point Nabal Air Station Hospital for care.

After which Mr. Saare was attached to and served aboard the U.S.S. Wichita, A.O.R. 1 and immediately departed for a second West-Pac. Richard later suffered from the from the contraction of Tuburculosis in the Phillippines which innevitabey led to his discharge from active service. After attending Motor Cycle Mechanics Institute in Phoenix, Arozona he opened a Custom Motorcycle Leather Company and Manufactured his own line of motorcycle gear. At one time he manufactured Leather goods for the Charlie Sheen movie Beyond the Law. Foriegn competition led to the failure of this business and Mr. Saare quickly went into the Custom Cabinet Manufacture. Artictic Cabinets remained viable until bankrupted by embezzlement of the Secratary/Bookkeeper.

Undaunted Mr. Saare continued to work in the construction trades doing remodeling and custom construction until moving to Klamath Falls, Oregon in 2006, and persuing his childhood dream of becoming an Author of Fiction/Fantasy and Action/Adveture. Mr. Saare began to write Poetry, nearly 100 Poems in 2 years and to his surprise he won a dozen or more Editors Choice Awards and in 2007 and 2008 he recieved the Outstanding Achievement in Poetry by the International Society of Poets. At the time of this writing he is currently re-releasing his first novel, The Trliogy of Shennan: Hagre and the Barbarian Wars. Book 2, The Empress of Magic is complete and being edited at this time.

He is preparing to Publish through XLibris Publishing his second book for public sale; Reflections in Words: A compilation of Poetry, Short Stories, and Artcles of current interest and a cookbook from all the places he has visited around the world. It is called 151 Recipes From Around the World. The later 2 books should be available in mid year 2009 at richardsare.com, Elequent Book Publishers, and Xlibris Publishers.