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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War

Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War

Moreau, Donna

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ISBN10: 074347077X
ISBN13: 9780743470773
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Apr 1 2005
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.42
Language: English
In 1964, as the first B-52s took flight in what would become America's longest combat mission, an old Air Force base on the plains of Kansas became Schilling Manor -- the only base ever to be set aside for the wives and children of soldiers assigned to Vietnam. Author Donna Moreau was the daughter of one such waiting wife, and here she writes of growing up at a time when The Flintstones were interrupted with news of firefights, fraggings, and protests, when the evening news announced death tolls along with the weather forecasts. The women and children of Schilling Manor fought on the emotional front of the war. It was not a front composed of battle plans and bullets. Their enemies were fear, loneliness, lack of information, and the slow tick of time.

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