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The Last Pathway Home
The Last Pathway Home
The Last Pathway Home
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The Last Pathway Home

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The way out of tragedy can be a long, intense journey, and in the end it may not be successful. The novel sets this journey against one of the most personal and powerful relationships in life, that of parent and child. Jessica is a heart-broken, middle-aged woman whose father was killed in World War II. She never she saw him. She sets out on a path to learn more about him by seeing the World War II battle sites where he fought. Her purpose is to understand him better by learning about his war record and to seek closure of her own lengthy loneliness by finding and walking on the grounds where he fought and to reconcile her thoughts and feelings at the end of her pathway, his gravesite.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateAug 13, 2013
ISBN9781481768108
The Last Pathway Home
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Calvin Vraa

Calvin Vraa has been a student of World War II and its effects in both his career as a psychologist and as a National Guard infantry officer, which included a deployment to Germany. He holds a doctorate in psychology and worked with families or members who sought help or assistance in his practice. He was commissioned through the infantry Officers Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Benning, Georgia. He retired as a lieutenant colonel. He is the author of When the Warflowers Bloomed, the story of the relationship between an American infantry officer and the woman, a world-class musician, he finds dying when he liberates a Nazi concentration camp.

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