About
About The Author
When I retired after a nursing career that spanned forty-three years I never thought I would write a book. But after my mother died, I was surprised to find a box of letters she and my father had written each other during WWII hidden in the back of her bedroom closet. I also found a box of documents including telegrams from the war department to my mother, prisoner of war documents in German, flight records from an airbase in England and wartime French francs.
Although I knew my father was in the Air Force during WWII, I did not know much else about what happened to him because he never talked about it. As I started reading the letters and looking at the documents, I was stunned at the story that began to unfold. It took me two years and trips to his airbase in England and the prison camp in Germany to put his story together.
Besides the dramatic story of what happened to my father during the war, the letters my parents wrote each other while apart were heartwarming, so full of love and optimism that they would see each other again and have a life together. Because of their story, their letters, their courage and resilience in the face of the horrors of war I felt their story needed to be shared. Without ever having written a book before I sat down to tell it. When you believe in telling a story so passionately anyone can become a writer.
