Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Killed in Action; 2. Dad, It's Benny -- 3. Where I(t) Started; 4. The Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony; 5. The War Honor Roll; 6. Talking like Crocky; 7. Family Heritage Personified; 8. Get Some Black-Seeded Simpson for Us to Sow, Benny -- 9. A Cabin of Family Stories; 10. The One Who Called Me Bolo; 11. Let's Go to the Circus! -- 12. A Moment's Riches; 13. Pop; 14. Masontown Officer Killed in Germany -- 15. First Love; 16. Speak the Speech, I Pray Thee, Trippingly on Thy Tongue -- 17. If You Value Freedom, Seek Justice; 18. Grandma Wright
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19. Split over the Vietnam War 20. Another Parade, Another War Memorial; 21. Learning More about Mom and Dad; 22. Pilgrimage; 23. Reaching a Milestone; Epilogue
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In December 1944 First Lieutenant Ewing R. "Pete" McClelland was captured in the Battle of the Bulge. Soon afterwards in an Allied air attack on the German POW camp where he was held, he was killed. Back home in Pennsylvania, his young widow and three small children survived him. Too young to have lasting recollections, Ben W. McClelland, the soldier's son who was just beyond infancy, became one of the war's fatherless innocents for whom the memories of others would form the paternal image. As the boy evolved into manhood, he reflected on how strange it was to gro.
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JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt2kjrt4
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Title
Soldier's son.
International Standard Book Number
1578066255
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
McClelland, Ben W.,1943-
McClelland, Ben W.,1943-Childhood and youth.
McClelland, Ben W.,1943-Family.
Mclelland, Ewing R.,-1944.
McClelland, Ben W.,1943-
Mclelland, Ewing R.,-1944
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Children of military personnel-- United States, Biography.
Prisoners of war-- Germany, Biography.
Soldiers-- Family relationships-- United States.
World War, 1939-1945-- Prisoners and prisons, German.