There Come a Soldier -

Peggy Mercer

Handprint book

2007

40 páginas

1h 20m

ISBN-13: 9781593541927

In 1943 the US was figthing the Secnd World War. My father, Estlee Ted Mercer, was twenty years old. Responding to the call of duty, my father left Ambrose, Georgia, and joined the Army. He was attached to the IOIst Airborne Division and fought in battles in Italy, France and the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne in Belgium. As a child, I begged my father for a war story, and this is the story my father told me.