Don'tcha Know There's a War On?

By Wilbur D. Jones Jr.

In 2020 at the Battleship North Carolina, President Donald Trump annoucned the designation of Wilmington, North Carolina, as America's first World War II Heritage City. This culminated in a 12 1/2 year public-private partnership project through the US Congress conceived, organized, and led by the author, a volunteer. Selection criteria: a city's contributions to the war effort; and its legacy preservations. The National Park Service administers this program.

To tell this story, the author weaves articles from the "Wilmington StarNews" - a Gannett newspaper in the USA TODAY Network - into an anthology or compendium, of life, culture, and harsh reality on on the area's home front. He either wrote them or served as a writer's principal source. They read as a memoir of wartime Wilmington and a tribute to its Heritage City preservation, and his life growing up there during the war.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1630620998
• ISBN13: 9781630620998
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Simply Francis Publishing Company
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"