War Torn - Chapman, Dan
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Résumé :
The Great Depression and WWII were difficult and challenging years for so many. Mix that drama with the trauma of a horribly dysfunctional family, and you had the makings of utter disaster and failure. War Torn: Mending of a Family, however, tells the saga of one special family through the eyes and words of a disenfranchised member who struggled her entire youth to maintain her identity and relationship with her unforsaken family of siblings and survive the violent onslaught of an angry, contemptable and denying father. The story follows the footsteps and years of our main character while she challengingly deals with issues of exclusion and shame throughout her insecure, young life yet fights to retain her place and independence within the family scope and, ultimately, bring all her siblings back together where they belonged. The story is factual and historical by content and nature as it reviews lifestyles and challenges while living through the depression and war years and learning survival skills as a female welder of Rosie-the-Riveter (and Wendy-the-Welder) fame. The story, therefore, is a biographical travelogue as it describes and discusses a variety of conflicts and issues that arose in our young heroine&rsquo...
Biographie:
Dan Chapman retired from education several years ago to begin his new hobby/career of traveling and writing. The idea was to visit unique places in the world, stay awhile and write poetry and stories about it. One destination, however, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, turned into a pleasing annual layover and Dan's inspirational place to write about whatever came to his mind. After a second volume of poetry and two novels were produced, the whole, new-writing affair fell comfortably into his new lifestyle. In between Dan's teaching career and developing/-owning/operating three social- service programs, our author took a nine-year hiatus to explore field-construction welding while attempting to duplicate what his parents had done as he tried experiencing life, himself, as a boomer welder.
This book, War Torn: Mending of a Family, is partly a tribute to that lifestyle. Our author,reflects, I come from an extraordinary family who lived through extraordinary times....
Sommaire:
s life. There are enough tears to go around, to-be-sure. Yet, there is also a plethora of historical fact and curious and humorous experiences as well as inspirational commentary and dialogue. War Torn: Mending of a Family, Depression Years saga, WWII Homefront story, Patricia Vera McCord, Rosie-the-Riveters, Wendy-the-Welders, welding....