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A Father's Wartime Diary
Da Capo Press
March 2005
On Sale: March 10, 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0786715855
EAN: 9780786715855
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Non-Fiction
In 1998, novelist Frank Schaeffer's eighteen-year-old son
John joined the Marines straight out of prep school. Their
ensuing journey, recounted in the bestselling Keeping
Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States
Marine Corps, struck a fervent chord amongst the many
Americans with a family member in the military. In Faith of
Our Sons, Frank Schaeffer picks up his family's ongoing
story as Corporal John Schaeffer is deployed to the Middle
East on the day Gulf War II begins. Schaeffer's moving and
timely account of the universal experience of losing a
child— either temporarily or permanently—to war and his
attendant emotions (from pride to panic to rage and back
again) is punctuated throughout by the voices of the many
others in Frank's situation, thousands of parents and
children, who continue to pour their hearts out to the
Schaeffers in countless letters since the publication of
Keeping Faith—from those waiting anxiously for loved ones
to come home to those who know they never will. No other
book addresses the more intimate, but in some ways just as
difficult and heroic side of the wartime experience: that
of those waiting at home, praying for the safety of their
loved ones.
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