Betty L. Carter Boeken

It s the 1940 s and the WW11 is raging. There are six girls and three boys living with Mam in a log cabin with no electricity or running water. Pap comes home only when feels the notion life s not easy. The struggles become even more real when thirteen year old Retha Pogue sees her eighteen year old brother, Wilburn, drafter and going off to war. Surprising twists await in this gripping story of what life was really like for so many families.

In this true, heroic story of perseverance, bravery and valor, young Yancy survives by his own strength and ingenuity. Starting with his earliest memories, the hardscrabble years growing up in the hills of Kentucky, to serving in the U.S. Army during WWII, life after the war and on to marriage and children. A very captivating read.