The Project Day Lily story chronicles the events surrounding what the public knows as "The Gulf War Syndrome” or “Gulf War Illnesses.” To this day, the public perception of that tragedy is very limited, and no one seems to remember or knows what really happened. Many veterans went to the Gulf War as healthy individuals and returned with chronic ailments and an unusual infection that they inadvertently transmitted to their spouses and children. Now there are over 150,000 veterans of that conflict that suffer from chronic illnesses and tens of thousands have died without acknowledgment or proper assistance to keep secret the origin of their illnesses.

The "exposures" in Kuwait and Iraq and the chronic infections picked up by our troops just didn’t “happen” like a flu infection. These men and women were actually "bombed" and "sprayed" with a chemical and biological soup from missiles and sprayers unleashed by Saddam Hussein's forces. They were also inoculated during their deployment with questionable vaccines. What makes this even more horrific…in the soup of vaccines and environmental exposures were biological agents not created by some mad Iraqi scientist or some rogue ex-Soviet scientist hired by Saddam as part of his "Weapons of Mass Destruction" arsenal.

No. This deadly soup was actually created in the United States by our own scientists; some of whom were trained by the “Operation Paperclip” scientists brought back from Nazi Germany after World War II. And it was tested in our own prisons using unsuspecting prisoners long before the first Gulf War.

Not only did our own scientists create new deadly biological agents, but our own Federal government approved sending these materials directly to Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war. We must have known that Saddam would use these weapons against the Iranians. So we created our own Frankenstein monster when we supplied Iraq with the germs almost a decade before the first Gulf War.

The biggest drawback to man's existence is the proclivity for a monumentally stupid mindset that allows sheer brilliance and compassion to co-exist with a darker side that kills, starts wars, and inflicts unspeakable acts.

Project Day Lily is based on the true story of two scientists in Texas that discovered the presence of one of the most insidious incapacitating biological agents ever developed in Gulf War veterans’ blood. This microbe hides inside cells and causes all sorts of chronic signs and symptoms, similar to what one would see with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis and many other chronic illnesses. It also tells the story of the two scientists being thrust into a world of danger and intrigue as they unravel the mystery of how sinister university and government administrators plotted to keep what these scientists had discovered hidden from the American public, even attempting to murder the two whistleblowers to prevent the exposure of their hideous experiments from public scrutiny. The final irony is that the inheritance of one of these scientists was likely used to finance the development and testing of biological weapons of mass destruction by a rogue faction of government scientists, bureaucrats and intelligence operatives, and these same funds likely financed the diabolical campaign of sabotage against the two Texas scientists.

Project Day Lily explains to the general public what happened to the veterans and their family members after the first Gulf War and what is happening to our Armed Forces to this day. Although the book’s narrative ends a few years after the Gulf War, the story continues. Project Day Lily is a wake-up call to America. The book explains why America’s involvement in biological agent development and testing made us less safe and resulted in extremist’s justification for terrorist attacks like September 11, 2001.