After the Flag Has Been Folded
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Karen Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966 — in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry — and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands of a frightened young widow with no skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother's remarkable courage, strength, and stubborn tenacity, a family in the midst of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to achieve its own version of the American Dream.
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Beginning on the day Karen learns of her father's death and ending thirty years later with her pilgrimage to the battlefield where he died, half a world away from the family's hometown, After the Flag Has Been Foldedis a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father, a daughter and her nation — and a poignant remembrance of a mother's love and heroism.
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