After the Flag Has Been Folded

<p>Karen Spears was nine years old living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee when her father David Spears was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966--in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry--and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands of a frightened young widow with no skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother's remarkable courage strength and stubborn tenacity a family in the midst of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to achieve its own version of the American Dream.</p><p>Beginning on the day Karen learns of her father's death and ending thirty years later with her pilgrimage to the battlefield where he died half a world away from the family's hometown <em>After the Flag Has Been Folded</em> is a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father a daughter and her nation--and a poignant remembrance of a mother's love and heroism.</p>