They Served their country with honor and distinction. Their wives and children also served with courage and love. The author's father, grandfathers and husband faithfully served their country with honor and distinction as career military men, from the Mexican Expedition in 1911 to the battlefields of both World Wars, to the skies over Vietnam. With courage and patriotism, they earned medals and ribbons and parades in their honor. The stories of their supportive wives and children are less well-told: their frequent and often abrupt transfers; their years as single-parent families; the frequent uprootings of the children, changing schools sometimes more than once a year; the worry; the joys and sorrows; the triumphs and disappointments. Not all the heroes of military service wore a uniform. This is a story of the heroes who stayed home. They also served. Book jacket.
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