title: Warriors: Expanded and Updated Edition: More on Living with Courage, Discipline, and Honor
author:  Loren W. Christensen 
description: <b>Loren Christensen</b> began his law enforcement career in 1967 when he served in the army as a military policeman in the United States and in Vietnam. He joined the Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau in 1972 and retired in 1997. During those years, he specialized in street gangs, defensive tactics, dignitary protection, and patrolling the bizarre streets of skid row. He now writes full time and teaches martial arts.
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  **DEDICATION**
  
    
    
  
  This one is for the fighters.
  
  The ones who gave their all so we can have ours.
  
    
    
  
  “Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be an anarchist…be
  anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent.
  Live—live fully, live passionately, live disastrously.” ~ _Vita Sackville-
  West_
  
    
  
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  **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
    
  
  Special thanks to my editor Lea Burn for all her help in making Jamie’s story
  all I know it could be.
  
    
    
    
  
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  **PROLOGUE**
  
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  And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a
  bright song it is, that O ‘tis love, ‘tis love, ‘tis love that makes the world
  go round.
  
  ~ _Charles Dickens_ from Our Mutual Friend
  
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  _Haddington House_
  
   _Car