Publisher's Synopsis
With the backdrop of war, a young soldier seeks to hold on to the only world he's known, and the one he wants to return to. A summer romance. A November engagement and enlistment. On Nov. 11, 1942, in the courtyard of Independence Hall, hundreds of new recruits are sworn-in to the U.S. Military. Anne Caruso is there to watch as a still 18-year-old Herman Trout joins in. Herman's life-changing 3-year journey through the Pacific Theater is about to begin. It's a story told in his 177 letters to Anne. Cover photo: Herman and Anne on Nov. 22, 1942.
