Ray Elliott, author of Wild Hands Toward the Sky, a post-World War II novel from the point of view of a 5-year-old boy whose father was a Marine killed on Guadalcanal before the boy can remember, and Iwo Blasted Again, a novella about an aging Iwo Jima veteran in the last 36 hours of his life (released October 2006), has been a Marine, a farmer, an oil field roughneck, a construction worker, a