“1969”: STATUE CELEBRATING THE “LEAGUE OF WIVES”
“1969”: Book Two of the Historical Fiction Trilogy “Starlings of Peace”
Stored in its creator’s shop, this statue is waiting to be unveiled in Star Park last year, June 21, 2024. The statue honors the wives of military combatants who fought for their partners while they were Vietnam prisoners of war. In the article, written by Madeline Yang for The Coronado News, she explained, “… this will be the first memorial to military spouses in the country.”
The “League of Wives” was a forerunner of today’s “National League of POW / MIA Families. In 1969, such a formal organization was still struggling to “obtain the release of all prisoners, the fullest possible accounting for the missing and repatriation of all recoverable remains of those who died serving our nation during the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia."
In my upcoming book, “1969”: Book Two of the Historical Fiction Trilogy “Starlings of Peace”, the total commitment of military spouses to rescuing their prisoners of war and getting a full accounting of those missing in action is one of the issues that weaves through the story.
To read Book One, “1949”, its predecessor, click here:
“1949”: Book One of the Historical Fiction Trilogy “Starlings of Peace”
“1949”: Book One of the Historical Fiction Trilogy, “Starlings of Peace” is on pace to be published in February, 2025.
The book is fiction – except for the facts.
The base photograph is an Alamy stock photo #F5G846 from the Allan Cash Library. The scene depicts work on an aircraft in England. The British, French and American militaries worked together to fly in food and fuel necessary to keep Germans alive during the Soviet blockade of all roads and railways to and from the democratic island – West Berlin.
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