Here's My Heart: A Legacy of Love and War

By Leigh W. Callan

Like so many children and grandchildren of "the Greatest Generation," Leigh Callan first read her mother's preciously saved war letters after her father's death. Thus began the long adventure of discovery and self-discovery resulting in Here's My Heart, which brings together selected letters and photographs with the history of her father's unit and campaigns, his unfinished memoir of the war years, recent reflections written by her mother--an avid participant in this project--and Leigh's own observations about her intergenerational journey. This latter includes an "In His Footsteps" tour to Europe, where Leigh and her brother trace the path of their father's war, informed and inspired by the "word pictures" he painted for their mother so many years ago. In so doing, Leigh Callan, too, offers a classic tale of voyage and discovery that will surely be familiar today to the friends and relatives of former generations who discover eyewitness accounts of war--be it V-mail or E-mail--in closets, attics, garages, or hard drives, and ask themselves: what did my loved one do in the war, and how can I preserve this personal account in honor of his memory and for the sake of future generations?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996738177
• ISBN13: 9780996738170
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Rivermont Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"