After the Flag Has Been Folded: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost to War–and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together

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Karen Spears was once nine years old, living with her circle of relatives in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was once killed within the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was once 1966—in a nation being torn apart by a war no one wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry—and unexpectedly the care and well-being of three small children were solely within the hands of a frightened young widow and not using a skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother’s remarkable courage, strength, and stubborn tenacity, a circle of relatives in the middle of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to reach its own version of the American Dream.

Beginning at 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 circle of relatives’s homeland, 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.

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