https://forehandfamily.wordpress.com/korea-the-book/

"My manuscript is available online for you to read freely. (Details below.)  

"Ever get a letter four decades after it was written?  I did.  It was written to me, a seven-year-old, but I did not read it until I was almost fifty. 

"That family letter held a 'treasure trove' of details concerning what had happened to my father who was “M-I-A” in Korea.  As a boy growing up in Burns (Tennessee), I hardly knew anything that was in this letter.  

"That 'late-arriving' letter drove me research about my father and about what had happened to him.  As a result, I wrote this fully-documented manuscript for my children so that they could know about their soldier grandfather, one from the “greatest generation.” 

"This story is not only about my father, it’s also about a family searching for answers when a loved one just “disappears” during combat.  Of the 30 or so US soldiers in his headquarters unit, my 35-year-old father was the only one not to escape when hordes of Chinese overran his location [on Hill 412].  

"Did he live or die?  Two-and-half years trudged by before an answer to that question surfaced.  Even then, many unanswered questions remained as some do now.

"My oldest daughter has posted online the latest draft of this manuscript.  If you would like to read it, “message” me and I’ll be glad to send you a free link to it.

"It’s a long and detailed account about our family and its search.  The story is also punctuated by many of my father’s first-hand observations about the Korean War. (He wrote about 150 letters to his family before he disappeared.)

Thanks,

Tom Forehand, Jr.