There Were No Flowers

<p><strong>Enter the operating room with Dr. William Meffert as he shares generations' worth of his family's wartime surgery experiences.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>William Meffert is a surgeon. His father was a surgeon. And now so is his son. Three generations familiar with incisions blood and loss. From World War II and Vietnam to modern operating rooms they have all fought the battle for human life. Now Meffert journeys with his son to chart his family's history through the changing world of combat surgery and beyond to reveal the universal truths that connect them across generations.</p><p><br></p><p>As Meffert travels with his son to field hospital locations of World War II and Vietnam they encounter detailed memories of trauma surgery wounded soldiers and the effects of war-a stark reminder of its cost on humankind. Throughout Meffert meditates on the lasting impact of conflict and the pressures of a surgeon's life from being forced to make immediate life-or-death decisions for unknown patients to the realities of blood and gore to the difficulty of sharing these experiences with the uninitiated.</p><p><br></p><p>Linking together the individual lives of grandfather father and son <em>There Were No Flowers</em> is a story of war surgery trauma and the joys of fatherhood family and love in the face of it all.</p>