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Neighborhood Heroes
- Life Lessons from Maine's Greatest Generation
Engelsk Paperback
Neighborhood Heroes
- Life Lessons from Maine's Greatest Generation
Engelsk Paperback

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Inspired by the old African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground," high-school student Morgan Rielly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories. All of these veterans taught him something, too, not just about how to fight a war, but how to live a life. They were never preachy, never full of themselves. Each of them knew they had participated in something great and special, but none of them thought that they, themselves, were great or special. There was Fred Collins, the sixteen-year-old Marine who used his Boy Scout training to clip a wounded soldier''s chest together using safety pins from machine gun bandoliers while under withering fire on Iwo Jima. Or Inex Louise Roney, who served as a gunnery instructor for the Marines, hoping she could end the war sooner and bring her brother home. Or Harold Lewis, who held onto hope despite being shot down out of the sky, nearly free-falling to his death, and spending four months behind enemy lines in Italy. Or Jean Marc Desjardins, whose near-death experiences defusing German bombs with his buddy Puddinghead, taught Rielly the value of a good friend.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
180
ISBN-13:
9781608932634
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
160893263X
Udg. Dato:
7 jun 2014
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
226mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
7 jun 2014
Forfatter(e):
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