Married Dec. 6, 1942 in the tiny Gothic Chapel on Alfred University campus, Kenneth and Laurella Healy awoke the next day to a world at war. Pearl Harbor had been hit, and Ken, wearing blue suspenders as Lolly would recall decades later, told his bride he must go. Little did they know how soon he would go or how long their personal battle to hold on to love would last. Told here in their own surviving letters is the story of their heartache and weary wait as they shouldered duty for an uncertain future.

For any and every man, or woman, who wonders not only is this all there is, but is this all I am, Kevin Brennan's collection of poems and memories provides a searching journey through a human soul. Kevin brings the clinical training of a psychologist and the ordered thinking of a computer geek to his profoundly personal work of self-examination, art, and ultimately redemption.