OVER HERE: A Young Boy's Journey through World War II - Couverture souple

Pataky, Ron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1425916147 ISBN 13 : 9781425916145

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

"When I first arrived in this world in May of 1935, I was naked, wet, hungry, and broke. Almost immediately, within literal seconds of my arrival on scene, I was struck from behind by a person or persons unknown. Small wonder, I suppose, that I continued to have little use for Welcome Wagon for some years thereafter. And, I didn't even want to hear about some other dude's humble beginnings in, say, a deserted duck blind in the parched Dakota outback!" Thus begins the touching and humorous story of Ron Pataky and his younger brother, Gordon, a couple of depression-era boys irreverently tossed into the tumbling kaleidoscope of mid-1930s America, when easily-remembered melodies and the lyrics of love filled the radio airwaves, and when sole ownership of a one-dollar silver certificate actually meant something to the holder. Over the next ten years - including the "War Years" from 1941 to 1945 -- the boys would be shuttled from school to school (nine schools in all!) in no less than eight cities, and would exist in near-constant fear of a young, emotionally-unprepared father with a blazing temper and precious little in the way of self-control!The much-beloved brother Gordon would eventually commit suicide. This is Ron's story.

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Biographie de l'auteur

"When I first arrived in this world in May of 1935, I was naked, wet, hungry, and broke. Almost immediately, within literal seconds of my arrival on scene, I was struck from behind by a person or persons unknown. Small wonder, I suppose, that I continued to have little use for Welcome Wagon for some years thereafter. And, I didn't even want to hear about some other dude's humble beginnings in, say, a deserted duck blind in the parched Dakota outback!" Thus begins the touching and humorous story of Ron Pataky and his younger brother, Gordon, a couple of depression-era boys irreverently tossed into the tumbling kaleidoscope of mid-1930s America, when easily-remembered melodies and the lyrics of love filled the radio airwaves, and when sole ownership of a one-dollar silver certificate actually meant something to the holder. No minimum wage yet existed. A thing called Social Security has just been born. Only a few years stood between their infancy and a monumental earth-mover that folks everywhere would choose to call World War Two.From this point, "the war years" would uproot the boys time and again, taking them from city to city in the Eastern United States for the next several years. In all, they would live in no less than eight different cities and attend nine schools by ages nine and ten, respectively, including, before the world would again know peace, a one-room schoolhouse in Ohio, and an all-Black urban school (Ron and Gordon were white kids!) in downtown Washington D.C. They would be authentic "farm boys" for long periods of time. They would be in attendance at the President's Birthday Ball (for FDR) at the Wardman Park Hotel in the nation's capital. They would play in a captured Japanese submarine. They would live in the midst of senators, Admirals, Generals, and other highly-placed men of war. And, the day would come when Ron would run guiltily afoul of the FBI!Through it all, an emotionally-unprepared father would instill a too-often-realized fear of physic

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1425916147
• ISBN 13: 9781425916145
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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