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World War II Volume 1
$25.00
This poetry suite contains the following poems:
- “Lorraine’s Diary”
- “The Abiding Promise of Hope”
Description
Lorraine’s Diary | by J. David Abbott
A Hawaii schoolgirl’s diary entries about sweaters, choir, movies, and a Christmas dance alternate with Japanese carrier preparations for attack. J. David Abbott lets ordinary adolescent anticipation collide with Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as private life and world history reach the same morning. “Lorraine’s Diary” contrasts the journal entries of a young high school girl living in Pearl Harbor to the approaching Japanese harbingers who would change not only her world, but history itself.
The Abiding Promise of Hope | by J. David Abbott
The Nagasaki atomic blast destroys Shiroyama Elementary School and leaves only twenty children alive, yet two shoots emerge from a burned camphor tree. J. David Abbott makes the fused Bombed Twin Camphor Tree a living prayer for peace and a place where children’s laughter can return. “The Abiding Promise of Hope” tells the incredible story of the camphor tree that reappears near a schoolyard after the bombing of Nagasaki, despite atomic expert forecast that no vegetation would grow with the blast site for a hundred years.
