Searching for Friday's Child" chronicles the life of a young heroic soldier, his early life, duty in the Philippine Islands, on Bataan, Corregidor, and life as a Japanese POW during World War II, as told by letters, telegrams, the words of his close friends and those of his sister, the author.
From the time he was a little guy Edward Randell has an vivid interest in airplanes and flying. He realizes part of his dream when he begins taking flying lessons as a teenager. From there to flying over the highest mountains in the world he fulfills his dream. Still flying as an old man, still fulfilling the dreamflying is his life. Although only one of his four sons has shown an interest in planes and flying Edward has passed along his flight genes to the coming generation. The story of his journey for doing so lies within this book.
It all begins when Pat and Leslie Halston are flying over the fl at tree-covered top of Weeks Mountain in the foothills of the High Sierras one Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1983. After Pat persuades old Mr. Weeks to sell to him, Pat clears the mountaintop enough for a landing strip and a site for the huge repair hangar he wants built for his restoration work. Gradually, eleven other couples join Pat and Leslie and call The Aerie, their home. Personality differences cause friction between some of the residents but surely not enough to result in murder!
In the 1880s Emma Clarke came west from Ohio to Kansas in a covered wagon built by her father. They continued from Kansas to California by train. Emmas mother died after they reached San Francisco leaving Emma and her father Thomas to raise toddler Dillyshane and baby Myra. Along with the help of a Chinese houseboy, nine-year-old Emma took charge.
It all begins when Pat and Leslie Halston are flying over the fl at tree-covered top of Weeks Mountain in the foothills of the High Sierras one Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1983. After Pat persuades old Mr. Weeks to sell to him, Pat clears the mountaintop enough for a landing strip and a site for the huge repair hangar he wants built for his restoration work. Gradually, eleven other couples join Pat and Leslie and call The Aerie, their home. Personality differences cause friction between some of the residents but surely not enough to result in murder!
In the 1880s Emma Clarke came west from Ohio to Kansas in a covered wagon built by her father. They continued from Kansas to California by train. Emmas mother died after they reached San Francisco leaving Emma and her father Thomas to raise toddler Dillyshane and baby Myra. Along with the help of a Chinese houseboy, nine-year-old Emma took charge.
Searching for Friday's Child is the story of one young man and the closeness he shared with his family...a closeness which held them all together throughout the harrowing days of World War II in spite of their separation by many geographical miles. Howard Irish, graduated less than a year from Michigan State College is called to active duty with the Coast Artillery branch of the Army in May of 1941. In August he is sent to the Philippine Islands in the Pacific to what seems at the time to be a country club assignment. Corregidor Island, lush and tropical, is filled with enviable recreational pursuits, friends, servants. Life takes on a relaxed easy air. Howard notes, however, that the West Point graduates who are his superior officers are much more sharp than any he has served under heretofore. Undercurrents of impending war causes him to naively think..."we sorta wish that if a war is going to start it would hurry up because it wouldn't take long." Howard enjoys many aspects of the Philippines but he misses his family and the girl he left behind who had so desperately wanted to marry him before he left. Howard writes long detailed letters home to his family and girlfriend. His mother saved all of his letters. After December 7, 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and portions of the Philippine Islands she had no information at all as to what had happened to her son. She wrote tirelessly to anyone who might know him or know someone who might possibly have come in contact with him. More than fifty years later Howard's sister opens the letters, telegrams and clippings her mother saved and finds herself compelled to continue her mother's pursuit for information. Searching for Friday's Child chronicles Howard's story in unexpected and rewarding ways. A story to touch your heart and remember.
From the time he was a little guy Edward Randell has an vivid interest in airplanes and flying. He realizes part of his dream when he begins taking flying lessons as a teenager. From there to flying over the highest mountains in the world he fulfills his dream. Still flying as an old man, still fulfilling the dreamflying is his life. Although only one of his four sons has shown an interest in planes and flying Edward has passed along his flight genes to the coming generation. The story of his journey for doing so lies within this book.
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