Author Description

This book was written because those whom I know and respect asked me to write it. Our country has been blessed by generations of soldiers who gave their all for our freedom. They stepped forward at Bunker Hill; they stood a solid line in the trenches of hell and death known as World War I. During World War II our brave soldiers parachuted from airplanes in the dark of night. They waded in waist-high tides from the landing craft and watched their fellow GIs fall beside them. Yet they continued to crawl up the beaches and cliffs. One after another, they fell to their death at Pacific Island after Pacific Island. On the beaches of Normandy, in the desertsof Africa, and on the high seas they fought, they gave their all. Some quietly now lay in our national cemeteries; others lay at the bottom of the largest oceans. In Korea once again we called upon our young men and women to fight and die in afar off land