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Leland: It would have been a wonderful life.

Leland: It would have been a wonderful life.

Blakeslee, Shane

Paperback

Korean War

ISBN13: 9798999030900
Publisher: Blakeslee Corporation, Inc.
Published: Jun 30 2025
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

THE YEARBOOK WAS REAL.
AND SO WAS LELAND.

In 1949, Leland Blakeslee graduated from Bolivar Central School in Western New York. The design of this book was inspired by his senior yearbook-a real artifact from the life he left behind.

The yearbook captured a young man on the threshold of his future. A year later, that future was gone. Leland was nineteen when he was killed on a frozen ridge near Unsan during the Korean War.

But what if he had lived?

Leland reimagines the life he never got to live. He comes home, attends Cornell, works at NASA, marries and raises a family, and quietly helps power the future through innovation.

Blending historical fact with poignant fiction, Leland is a moving tribute to a life interrupted-and to the remarkable legacy that might have been.

It would have been a wonderful life.

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