Lost in the Victory

After searching for her own father killed in World War II, Ann Mix founded the American WWII Orphans Network. The voices in this book belong to sons and daughters who for half a century have seldom spoken of their fathers or of their own lives after the deaths of their fathers. Memories revealed through interviews, letters, family histories and remembrances are remarkable for their honesty and quiet courage. 60 photos.

Editor's Note

xi

(2)

Calvin L. Christman

Preface

xiii

(4)

Susan Johnson Hadler

Introduction

xvii

Ann Bennett Mix

Vince: There Is a Part of Me Down Deep Which Never Heals

1

(6)

Anne: I Was Born in the Wake of Death

7

(14)

Bill: The Males in the Family Have Not Been Fully Blessed

21

(10)

Joyce: You Need to Talk to Your Daddy about Certain Things

31

(6)

Eric: I Don't Think You Ever Get over It

37

(12)

Connie: I Remember the Cake...the Package that Came Back

49

(10)

Damon: They Shouldn't Send People Like That to Fight Wars

59

(14)

Ellen: We Were Isolated and Very Different, and I Knew It

73

(10)

Clint: How Was It That We Didn't Count?

83

(6)

Ann: Every Memory Is Bittersweet

89

(12)

Clatie and John: We Don't Know How He Died

101

(12)

Sam: My Father's Dead and My Mother's Crazy

113

(10)

John: The Hurt Never Goes Away

123

(6)

Nancy: Yes, I Am Your Daughter

129

(4)

John: When I Had My Own Children...I Didn't Know What To Do

133

(8)

Mary: You're Out There on Your Own

141

(10)

James: The Lost Pilot

151

(4)

Jim: I Am the Father

155

(8)

Roberta: I Never Got to Know You

163

(12)

Jeff: I Expect People to Die on Me All the Time

175

(10)

Sheila: My Father Probably Never Knew That I Had Been Born

185

(6)

Tony: My Father Was Very Much Alive

191

(6)

Gloria: I Needed to Be Somebody

197

(12)

Kathleen: My Father May Be in Germany Buried as a German Soldier

209

(6)

Susan: I Raise My Glass to You, Dear Papa, Fire and Spirit!

215

(10)

Appendix

225

(16)

Acknowledgments

241

(2)

Index

243

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