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"It had been the 1930s in southern Alabama where organic cotton and cornfields were the backdrop of my childhood stage. I was growing up exactly like everybody else - wrapped in a simple and predictable way of life. Folks were the same, weather was the same, the calendar was the same. It had been such an uncomplicated time that I possibly could never have thought that in just a few short years the entire world would be engulfed in warfare and that I would be caught in the middle of it. Where I lived in Lowndes Region, events in European countries and Asia, as menacing as they were, seemed light-years away. I would soon find that they were not so far away after all." So commences this powerful memoir in regards to a teenage youngster who, through the summer season of 1941 after his high school graduation, realizes he's deeply in love with a 16-year-old beautiful brunette he has known since first class. In the heat of an grief-stricken and passion-filled second, however, he makes an impulsive decision that will change his life in a dark and cruel way. Working away from home, he falsifies his time and hurriedly joins the Military, telling none of them of his family or friends. Within per month, he is halfway about the world, stationed in the Philippines, propelled into manhood, and everything too soon engaged in horrific combat against the Japanese. After a few months of fierce struggling, Frazier's heart is shattered and his head is numb as he pieces while Old Glory is decreased and changed by the Japanese flag of the Growing Sun. Overnight everything changes and his liberty, along with the freedom of thousands of others, instantly disappears. Through the next seven evenings and six days and nights, and for 90 miles, he is subjected to the unspeakable and inhumane horrors of the infamous Bataan Loss of life March. But that is just the beginning. Frazier becomes a shell of a man as he suffers three . 5 many years of brutal and unmerciful treatment as a prisoner of war in the Philippines and later in Japan. This powerful story will make you keep listening until the last chapter is heard and true liberty and peace are regained. "Colonel Frazier's account of survival makes him a hero - his account of forgiveness makes him a tale!" (Timothy Frost, retired Staff Sergeant, United States Army)
