The book is my most popular one with hundreds of copies sold or given away like we will be doing from December 4, 2021-December 7, 2021. I have been given uniformly good responses by readers and have had interesting thoughts about it. Some saw it as a parable. Some saw it as a statement against war while at the same time honoring those who have to fight it. On a personal note, my grandfather, Sanford William McClelland, Sr., served in the Army in the war as a Sergeant, teaching soldiers how to drive a machine called a half-track, half-tank, half-truck. He stayed stateside the whole time. He was in his mid-thirties, old enough to contribute to the war effort, but too old to be sent in combat. Plus, the fact that he had recently become a father to my dad probably had something to do with it. Many of my friends had parents or grandparents that were in that war. My uncle, Paul, (actually my second cousin’s husband, but I always called him Uncle Paul.) He never talked about the war,
