Letters from the Attic

<P>FASCINATING ... MANY WILL APPRECIATE THE NOSTALGIA AND PERSONAL LOOK INTO THE GREATEST ERA OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY. </P>-Dr. Bruce Shields Professor Emeritus Yale<P>This personal history recalls family love and young romance beneath the roar of a raging war building on letters stored away during World War II.</P><P>A widower now remarried Charles Young retires from a long teaching career in Greece and returns home to Connecticut with his wife Mary. After they move into his old family homestead they discover a box of letters in the attic. One letter at a time an early life is revealed.</P><P>Charles was just finishing junior high school when World War II broke out. He was a boy then and deeply in love with a girl named Launa with whom he'd meet at night in the park every full moon-until they were discovered and Launa was sent away. There was nothing to keep them together but their letters.</P><P>In 1943 Charles was accepted into a naval program at Harvard University. Away from his family for the first time he kept in contact once again through letters which included a detailed account of his service with the marines during the battle of Okinawa and the final surrender by the Japanese in Tokyo Bay in 1945.</P><P>Sharing a cache of letters from the early forties Charles recalls family friendship and love throughout his life.</P>