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by Lucinda Franks Lucinda Franks proves just how strong family is and how much we need it. Lucinda grew up with a father who was there, but because of the many things he was involved in during WWII as a spy and covert agent, he was remote and unemotional in his dealings with his family, by most standards. He had affairs and drank too much, and was in many ways the classic jerk to his family. This is one of the realizations and truths that many never want to fully come to grips with. It has to do with the Greatest Generation and all that they went through in the preserving of our freedom and life in our country. It will be relevant to many who have parents who lived in that era of time and dealt with the horrible, mind-numbing events of that war. It will be relevant also to those who are learning to deal with our soldiers now coming home from Iraq and those who lived and served in Vietnam. It is a book that will have you in tears and feeling the lonesomeness that comes from being in a position such as Tom Franks was in during his service and how he clammed up and fought a silent war within himself for those many years after the actual war, because that was what he was supposed to do. He came back, he survived, but he was dead inside, and he couldn’t pull himself out to regain his life before war and secrecy and pain took it from him. My Father’s Secret War is just that, a book about the war inside that remains in all who faced things in War that couldn’t be talked about when they came home. It is a story of a daughter’s love and need to find the father that she needs to know before he loses what little was left of his mind to dementia and death, to find the man inside before she loses him after finding an Iron Cross in a box. This is a book that may cause you to start talking to those who are close to you who may never have been able to relate to other things because of the horrors they carry inside of them. Ask the questions; get to know the father that you walked away from, if you had such a relationship. Lucinda Franks did and she is retelling her story and the story of the man who brought her into the world. Lucinda Franks is the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and a well known journalist for The New York Times. Her work speaks for itself as a joy of love and devotion to a father she hardly even knew until it was almost too late. This book is a total MUST READ. I couldn’t put it down, even though I was in tears much of the time while reading it. |
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My Father’s Secret War