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Zusatztext "An important and triumphant work of literature! a must read for every American in another time of war." Informationen zum Autor Karen Spears Zacharias >is an author/journalist, and Gold Star daughter whose father was killed in Vietna >. Her work has been featured in >the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Huffington Post and Newsweek > She was named 2018 West Virginia's Appalachian Heritage >Writer by Shepherd University and West Virginia's Center for the Book. Karen's debut novel, Mother of Rain , was awarded the Weatherford for Best in Appalachian by Kentucky's Berea College. Karen >as served on the national advisory boards for >he Vietnam Women' > Memorial Fund and the Vietnam Memorial Wall Foundation. >She lives in Deschutes County, Oregon, with her dog Hemingway, and volunteers with programs designed to help veterans and Gold Star familie > She can be reached at KarenZach.com. Klappentext Karen Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966 -- in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry -- and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands of a frightened young widow with no skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother's remarkable courage, strength, and stubborn tenacity, a family in the midst of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to achieve its own version of the American Dream. Beginning on the day Karen learns of her father's death and ending thirty years later with her pilgrimage to the battlefield where he died, half a world away from the family's hometown, After the Flag Has Been Folded is a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father, a daughter and her nation -- and a poignant remembrance of a mother's love and heroism. Zusammenfassung Karen Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966—in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry—and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands of a frightened young widow with no skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother's remarkable courage, strength, and stubborn tenacity, a family in the midst of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to achieve its own version of the American Dream. Beginning on the day Karen learns of her father's death and ending thirty years later with her pilgrimage to the battlefield where he died, half a world away from the family's hometown, After the Flag Has Been Folded is a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father, a daughter and her nation—and a poignant remembrance of a mother's love and heroism. This powerful memoir is a testament to what happens when the worst comes to pass—and the unshakeable love that holds a family together. A Daughter's Search for Truth: Thirty years after receiving the telegram, a daughter journeys to the Ia Drang Valley to stand on the battlefield where her father died, seeking answers and reconciliation. The True Cost of War: A portrait of a young widow with a ninth-grade education, left to raise three children in a Tennessee trailer park, and her tenacious fight for her family's version of the American Dream. A Southern Coming of Age: An unflinchingly honest look at growing up in the 1960s South, navigating poverty, family chaos, and the confusing legacy of a war that divided a nation.
