War affected three generations of Donald Sanders's family, including his grandfather, who suffered the effects of mustard gas long after World War I ended, and Sanders's father, who survived Pearl Harbor at age sixteen and went on to serve in the bloody Pacific campaign.
The author remembers waiting at an airport in Tennessee for his father's return home, unaware the man's horrendous experiences have driven him insane. Within hours of their reunion, Sanders's father attempts to kill his own son.
From there, Sanders spends his youth in a Catholic orphanage until he is old enough to...
War affected three generations of Donald Sanders's family, including his grandfather, who suffered the effects of mustard gas long after World War ...