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Fifty years back, a young gal opened a cardboard field in her basement. Long overlooked, it covered her father's World Conflict II uniform, vintage photographs, semaphore flags, and other WWII keepsakes. The field opened up an environment of pain and enjoyment to writer Barbara Eymann Mohrman as she set out on a personal journey to track her family history and inadvertently, unspoken Eymann family secrets. This is actually the storyline of hard-scrabble life in rural Oakdale, Nebraska (population 851) starting in the heyday of the 1920s. Chriss Eymann, a recently arrived Swiss immigrant and his wife, Hattie Mae, increased 10 children on the Dirt Bowl-ravaged plains during the 1930s in the depths of the fantastic Melancholy. But their most significant sacrifice was yet to come: when they dispatched four young sons off to conflict in the South Pacific and European countries. The mother's flag using its four blue superstars proudly exhibited the family's treasured contribution to the conflict effort. The story traces in detail, from 1930 to 1947, the anguish, risk, and their everlasting trust with some unusual family secrets that bring the storyline back to where it started.
