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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814290303321

Titolo

Lost in the victory [[electronic resource] ] : reflections of American war orphans of World War II / / collected by Susan Johnson Hadler and Ann Bennett Mix ; edited by Calvin L. Christman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Denton, : University of North Texas Press, 1998

ISBN

0-585-29468-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HadlerSusan Johnson <1945->

MixAnn Bennett <1940->

ChristmanCalvin L

Disciplina

940.53/161

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Children - United States

Orphans - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Editor's Note""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Vince: There Is a Part of Me Down Deep Which Never Heals""; ""Anne: I Was Born in the Wake of Death""; ""Bill: The Males in the Family Have Not Been Fully Blessed""; ""Joyce: You Need to Talk to Your Daddy about Certain Things""; ""Eric: I Don't Think You Ever Get over It""; ""Connie: I Remember the Cake . . . the Package that Came Back""; ""Damon: They Shouldn t Send People Like That to Fight Wars""; ""Ellen: We Were Isolated and Very Different, and I Knew It""; ""Clint: How Was It That We Didn't Count?""

""Ann: Every Memory Is Bittersweet""""Clatie and John: We Don't Know How He Died""; ""Sam: My Father s Dead and My Mother   s Crazy""; ""John: The Hurt Never Goes Away""; ""Nancy: Yes, I Am Your Daughter""; ""John: When I Had My Own Children. . . . I Didn't Know What to Do""; ""Mary: You   re Out There on Your Own""; ""James: The Lost Pilot""; ""Jim: I am the Father""; ""Roberta: I Never Got to Know You""; ""Jeff: I Expect People to Die on Me All the Time""; ""Sheila: My Father Probably Never Knew That I Had Been Born""; ""Tony: My Father Was Very Much Alive""

""Gloria: I Needed to Be Somebody""""Kathleen: My Father May Be in Germany Buried as a German Soldier""; ""Susan: I Raise My Glass to You,



Dear Papa, Fire and Spirit!""; ""Appendix Searching for Fathers Who Died in World War II""; ""INDEX""