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It all begins when Pat and Leslie Halston are flying over the fl at
tree-covered top of Weeks Mountain in the foothills of the High
Sierras one Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1983. After Pat
persuades old Mr. Weeks to sell to him, Pat clears the mountaintop
enough for a landing strip and a site for the huge repair hangar he
wants built for his restoration work. Gradually, eleven other
couples join Pat and Leslie and call The Aerie, their home.
Personality differences cause friction between some of the
residents but surely not enough to result in murder
It all begins when Pat and Leslie Halston are flying over the fl at
tree-covered top of Weeks Mountain in the foothills of the High
Sierras one Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1983. After Pat
persuades old Mr. Weeks to sell to him, Pat clears the mountaintop
enough for a landing strip and a site for the huge repair hangar he
wants built for his restoration work. Gradually, eleven other
couples join Pat and Leslie and call The Aerie, their home.
Personality differences cause friction between some of the
residents but surely not enough to result in murder
Searching for Friday's Child is the story of one young man and
the closeness he shared with his family...a closeness which held
them all together throughout the harrowing days of World War II in
spite of their separation by many geographical miles.
Howard Irish, graduated less than a year from Michigan State
College is called to active duty with the Coast Artillery branch of
the Army in May of 1941. In August he is sent to the Philippine
Islands in the Pacific to what seems at the time to be a country
club assignment. Corregidor Island, lush and tropical, is filled
with enviable recreational pursuits, friends, servants. Life takes
on a relaxed easy air. Howard notes, however, that the West Point
graduates who are his superior officers are much more sharp than
any he has served under heretofore. Undercurrents of impending war
causes him to naively think..."we sorta wish that if a war is going
to start it would hurry up because it wouldn't take long." Howard
enjoys many aspects of the Philippines but he misses his family and
the girl he left behind who had so desperately wanted to marry him
before he left.
Howard writes long detailed letters home to his family and
girlfriend. His mother saved all of his letters. After December 7,
1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and portions of the
Philippine Islands she had no information at all as to what had
happened to her son. She wrote tirelessly to anyone who might know
him or know someone who might possibly have come in contact with
him. More than fifty years later Howard's sister opens the letters,
telegrams and clippings her mother saved and finds herself
compelled to continue her mother's pursuit for information.
Searching for Friday's Child chronicles Howard's story in
unexpected and rewarding ways. A story to touch your heart and
remember.
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