LOS ANGELES, April 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- "Some people think honor is dead amongst men. Look at the number of fatherless homes, the male prison population, or the weekly arrests we see with male athletes and celebrities," said Dan Stradford, chief executive officer of the Altadena, California-based Action Duct Cleaning Company, board member of the National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA), and author of The Men's Code of Honor: 66 Principles That Make a Man.
"This is why I took on the task of studying male codes through history – military codes, codes of chivalry, athletic codes and others – to find the essential principles that still matter today," he said.
Stradford also shares stories of growing up in deep poverty in the rough neighborhoods of St. Louis, often learning about honor the hard way with few males to guide him and a father who was often absent, locked away in public mental hospitals.
"This is what women really want!" wrote nationally-known author and lecturer Hyla Cass, MD, in her review of The Men's Code of Honor. "A must-read for all men, boys, and the women who love them. It fills the gap in our prevailing culture, which unfortunately lacks formal rites of passage and codes of behavior for teaching boys to become men. Dan Stradford does a masterful job in this book. Man or woman, you'll be informed, inspired, and I'd say, transformed by this beautifully written book."
"This book should be required reading for leaders of all ranks," wrote former West Point graduate Army Major Arthur Moore. "Becoming a man of honor doesn't just happen. It takes a personal commitment to defining what that means, daily personal courage and discipline to choose the harder right over the easier wrong, and the learning that sometimes happens only after stumbling. Dan Stradford's 66 tenets are the answers to the test; I hope this book inspires men everywhere to "raise the bar."
The Men's Code of Honor is published in paperback by Whisper Canyon Publishing and is available at www.whispercanyon.net. It is also available in paperback and Kindle version at www.Amazon.com.