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Love affairs, under the best of circumstances, can have moments of intense stress. When one adds a mixture of military assignments and a distance half-way around the world, tender feelings between two lovers can become fragile and tenuous. Poignantly, "A Soldier's Letters," tells of such a relationship while also describing the military experiences in this country and the unique, colorful, and seductive oriental country of Japan. Although these letters were written more than a half century ago, the depicted struggle of two lovers' pursuit of happiness is as relevant today as it was then during the Korean conflict.
Love affairs, under the best of circumstances, can have moments of intense stress. When one adds a mixture of military assignments and a distance half-way around the world, tender feelings between two lovers can become fragile and tenuous. Poignantly, "A Soldier's Letters," tells of such a relationship while also describing the military experiences in this country and the unique, colorful, and seductive oriental country of Japan. Although these letters were written more than a half century ago, the depicted struggle of two lovers' pursuit of happiness is as relevant today as it was then during the Korean conflict.
The Great Depression was a powerful force that significantly altered the lives of everyone it touched. The effects were always pronounced and life-long. Destinies often were shifted. Through a collection of vignettes this autobiographical story of the first twenty-one years of a young boy's experiences, and those of his brothers, is told in the setting of those Depression years. The loss of their mother in a tragic death had a deeply emotional impact on the four sons. Out of the uncertainty and disorientation of a motherless home, these four boys, ages four months to eight years, eventually found them-selves under the care of an aunt who later became their stepmother in a home that had only a weekend father. The human chemistry in this family was fraught with conflict, confrontation, hope, lies, isolation, rejection, kindness, sex, deception, joy, avoidance, fun, withdrawal, greed, and pathos. It was in this setting that the four boys were able to find strength within and among them to cope and endure. four boys learning to make lemonade out of lemons in an environment where providing for was offered as a substitute for parental love.
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