My Father's War Stories As Told By Toys

<p>The house was small built on the GI Bill. In its knotty-pine kitchen beneath the gaze of countless wooden eyes darkened by cigarette smoke "My dad told war stories."</p><p>Scores of war stories for endless hours for years in unusual detail.</p><p>Tom Ahern has authored a dozen books. Today he is an internationally recognized expert on charity communications. He also won an NEA Fellowship in fiction.</p><p>This is his untamed memoir of growing up in an Irish-Scottish-American Catholic-Protestant household ... where any mention of sex was taboo men were seen as weak women as strong and religious warfare arrived with supper.</p><p>Tom's dad was a 1919 flu-epidemic orphan. Survived the Great Depression. Survived combat in World War 2. Survived a lifetime in a factory. Survived a son who turned on him as the Vietnam War drifted into "nuts." Survived a wife who rose to the management of a daily newspaper; then killed herself. This is one insider's perspective.</p>