Soldier's son / Ben W. McClelland
- Bib ID:
- 3091708
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McClelland, Ben W., 1943-
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- Description:
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004
- xiv, 310 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1578066255
- Summary:
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"In December 1944 First Lieutenant Ewing R. "Pete" McClelland was captured in the Battle of the Bulge. Soon afterwards he was killed when the Allies bombed the German POW camp where he was held." "Back home in Pennsylvania, his young widow and three small children survived him. Too young to have lasting recollections, Ben W. McClelland, the soldier's son who was just beyond infancy, became one of the war's fatherless innocents for whom the memories of others would form the paternal image." "As the boy evolved into manhood, he reflected on how strange it was to grow up without this parent. In this narrative, a work of analysis as well as an odyssey into family heritage, the son undertakes a compelling search to find this man he could not remember. Through sentiment and nostalgia he depicts the innocence of childhood and recalls the many people who furnished impressions of his father.".
"Old photographs, intimate letters, and interviews with the memory keepers and the storytellers in his extended family were resources from which the author recreated a time and a place and a person. This reconstruction resurrects a father vital in life and passion, a man chronicled in humorous family tales, realized among vivid small-town characters, and seen against the contrast of social changes of the 1960s." "The search for his father consumed most of a lifetime. As Ben W. McClelland was approaching the age of sixty, he had recovered this lost, never-before-realized identity. But to complete the circle of his quest, he undertook one thing more, the emotional pilgrimage to his father's grave in Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- Acknowledgments 000
- Chapter 1
- Killed in Action 000
- Chapter 2
- "Dad, It's Benny" 000
- Chapter 3
- Where I(t) Started 000
- Chapter 4
- The Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony 000
- Chapter 5
- The War Honor Roll 000
- Chapter 6
- Talking like Crocky 000
- Chapter 7
- Family Heritage Personified 000
- Chapter 8
- "Get Some Black-Seeded Simpson for Us to Sow, Benny" 000
- Chapter 9
- A Cabin of Family Stories 000
- Chapter 10
- The One Who Called Me Bolo 000
- Chapter 11
- "Let's Go to the Circus!" 000
- Chapter 12
- A Moment's Riches 000
- Chapter 13
- Pop 000
- Chapter 14
- "Masontown Officer Killed in Germany" 000
- Chapter 15
- First Love 000
- Chapter 16
- "Speak the Speech, I Pray Thee, Trippingly on Thy Tongue" 000
- Chapter 17
- If You Value Freedom, Seek Justice 000
- Chapter 18
- Grandma Wright 000
- Chapter 19
- Split over the Vietnam War 000
- Chapter 20
- Another Parade, Another War Memorial 000
- Chapter 21
- Learning More about Mom and Dad 000
- Chapter 22
- Pilgrimage 000
- Chapter 23
- Reaching a Milestone 000
- Epilogue 000.
- Subject:
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- McClelland, Ben W., 1943-
- McClelland, Ben W., 1943- -- Childhood and youth
- McClelland, Ben W., 1943- -- Family
- Mclelland, Ewing R., -1944
- Children of military personnel -- United States -- Biography
- Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography
- Soldiers -- United States -- Family relationships
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
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- Publication date:
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