Quiet and Harmless People
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The few remaining innocents were overwhelmed in a sea of outrage, patriotism, and self-sacrifice as young men put their cars up on blocks, students deferred their dreams of an education, farmers walked away from the fields they loved, as workers laid down their tools. Proud men who had raised buildings to the sky and laid steel rails across this immense country now stood naked in long lines, their pre-war identities shed with their clothing, while doctors looked into their mouths and stuck needles into unwilling flesh. The Japanese had decided for them that every American would do his duty, even if in his individuality each saw his differently from all the others.
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Ordinary Americans in the armed services and at home face the poignancy and the raw emotions of wartime. In this, the third volume of The Soldiers Trilogy, members of the Henderson and Martin families put on military uniforms to defend their country after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, We follow them through training and watch some of the family at war in the Pacific. The major characters, however, serve in Europe. There through the eyes of a foot soldier, an airman, a paratrooper, a ranking officer at Supreme Headquarters, and a spy behind enemy lines we see preparations and training for the assault on Hitler''s Fortress Europe, the carrying out of the assault on D-Day, and its aftermath.
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John Bacon was born in