The Cowboy Soldier's Sons
The Cowboy Soldier's Sons

Author: Tina Leonard

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1459238591

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Soldier. Cowboy. Father. Husband? Hired to work the Callahan brothers' New Mexico spread, Shaman Phillips doesn't know what to do about the stunning blonde he finds on his porch…except haul her into his arms. Turns out Tempest Thornbury wants to share more than just the returning soldier's out-of-this-world kisses. She wants to have Shaman's baby! Tempest came home to turn her not-so-hot past into a better future. The sexy, broody military man's bringing that dream one step closer to reality—she's got twin boys on the way. At Shaman's insistence, she agrees to marry him…and remain his lawful wife for one year after their sons are born. But once he's officially a father, Shaman can't let Tempest head back to Hollywood. It's time for this lonesome cowboy to join the ranks of those Callahan cowboys—and open a new chapter in all their lives!

A Soldier's Son
A Soldier's Son

Author: David A. Hotchkiss, Ph.D.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-03-27

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1450004148

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Poems of nationalism, patriotism, and honor await readers in the new book A Soldier’s Son. Authored by David Hotchkiss, PhD, this book is dedicated to all brave men and women that unselfishly and steadfastly serve in the United States Armed Forces. A Soldier’s Son looks at the greatness of America through the eyes of a career soldier who comes from a long line of soldiers; this makes him a soldier ́s son. Life in the military for both the military member and family are highlighted. Historical events such as the attack on the World Trade Center ́s twin towers, the Iraq War, the history of the Ft. McHenry flag, Pearl Harbor, and the Normandy invasion are all addressed in detail in Hotchkiss ́s poetic style. Life in America and things known as Americana such as family reunions, Christmas, backyard barbecues, and county fairs are also addressed. This book will make you laugh and cry, reflect, and reminisce and instill a sense of patriotic pride for America and the US military. Hotchkiss invites readers to reflect with his poems on liberty, democracy, the American way of life, and the men and women who fight for it.

A Soldier's Son
A Soldier's Son

Author: John Hodgkins

Publisher: Down East Books

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1461744989

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John Hodgkins was eight years old when his father was drafted into the army and left for Europe for fight in WWII. After his return, his father never spoke much of the war. After his father's death, John opened his father's diary and two boxes of memorabilia.

Mrs. Cordie’s Soldier Son
Mrs. Cordie’s Soldier Son

Author: Rocky R. Miracle

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2008-03-25

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781603440295

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The story of D.C. Caughran Jr., Mrs. Cordie’s son, could be that of almost any soldier in World War II. He left the comfort of home and family to become part of one of the defining conflicts of modern times. The letters he wrote home tell his story from the day he received his draft notice in the summer of 1942 through battle, capture, wounding, imprisonment, and his eventual return home for recuperation and discharge. Author Rocky R. Miracle, the son-in-law of D.C. Caughran, tells not only Caughran’s story, but at the same time the story of “the home folks” who anxiously watched for letters from their “soldier boy” and wrote faithfully of their love and prayers for his safety. This home-front narrative also stands as an important and deeply personal record of life in wartime. Taken prisoner during the German breakout of December 1944 that led to the Battle of the Bulge, D.C. was force-marched past corpses lining the road into Germany, loaded with other American prisoners into boxcars, and held in a prison camp during the coldest European winter of the century. He suffered starvation rations and hepatitis and was hospitalized after his liberation, though doctors were doubtful that he would recover. However, with time and care, he returned to health, was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, and lived a long, productive life. This intimate portrait of an American family—at home and at war—during a time of world upheaval is at once heartwarming, sobering, and entertaining. Mrs. Cordie’s Soldier Son is highly recommended for readers interested in World War II, the POW experience, and home-front literature.

Father, Soldier, Son
Father, Soldier, Son

Author: Nathaniel Tripp

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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The first duty of an infantry officer is the care of his men, but Nathaniel Tripp grew up fatherless in a house run by women and he arrived in Vietnam as a just-promoted second lieutenant in the summer of 1968 with no memory of a man's example to guide and sustain him. The father missing from Tripp's life had gone off to war as well, in the Navy in World War II, but the terrors were too much for him, he disgraced himself, and after the war ended he could not bring himself to return to his wife and young son. The occasional visit, the odd Christmas or birthday present, were all Tripp remembered of his father when he got off a plane in the heat of Saigon and an infantry platoon was entrusted to his care. Tripp's men were often in combat in the jungles along Highway 13 during the bloodiest year of the war but it was responsibility, not the enemy, that Tripp feared most. How Tripp learned to face both, to become the father he had barely known, to support and sustain the men in his care, are the subjects of this unusual memoir of one man's year in America's longest, saddest war. But it is the human story of Tripp and his flawed, distant father that take hold of the reader's mind. How Tripp gradually came to understand the strange trajectory of his father's life, what he learned from leading his platoon in battle that helped in the raising of his own sons in northern Vermont, the lingering images of the war that continue to frequent his dreams - all these make Father, Soldier, Son a powerful account of the experience of war by succeeding generations, of what fathers can teach sons, and of what sons must learn for themselves.