The Things Our Fathers Saw: Voices of the Pacific Theater: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA

by Matthew A. Rozell

Book Overview

The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you that at 19, you will never see again. The pain and shock are one thing. But now you have to tell her, from 5000 miles away.

-- 'So I had a hard two months, I guess. I kept mostly to myself. I wouldn't talk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948155052
• ISBN13: 9781948155052
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Woodchuck Hollow Studios Incorporated
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Beautifully written

This book. Wow. My father served in the Pacific theater and of course, he never talked about it with his kids. He did tell my husband some stories, which I learned about many years later, after my dad had died from causes related to drinking a LOT of alcohol. Now I get it. During the course of reading this amazing account, I cried for my dad and for all the people who suffered, were tortured and lived to tell their stories. The kids who died fighting yet another senseless war hit me pretty hard for their parents, as I lost a son (car accident, not war). The stories are conveyed as a matter of fact and very down to earth. Mr Rozell: hats off to you for a stunning narrative about our fathers. And, although I cannot possibly know what they went through, I understand a little bit better.