On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played in WWII. They began to meet for lunch every week, for her to ask him questions, and him to provide the answers. And with painful memories now at the forefront of his thoughts, her father began to suffer, making their meetings as much about healing as discovery.

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; A Word about Words; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Healing Waters; Chapter Two: A Line in the Sand; Chapter Three: Between the Lines; Chapter Four: Across the Years; Chapter Five: Tell Me a Word; Chapter Six: Two Questions, One Answer; Chapter Seven: Wednesdays with Murray; Chapter Eight: By Design; Chapter Nine: Searching for Answers; Chapter Ten: Limbo; Chapter Eleven: Nightmares Return; Chapter Twelve: When I Get Home; Chapter Thirteen: Pieces; Chapter Fourteen: Pearl; Chapter Fifteen: Iwo Jima; Chapter Sixteen: Katakana. Chapter Seventeen: Women FolkChapter Eighteen: Church; Chapter Nineteen: Breakdown; Chapter Twenty: Secrets; Chapter Twenty-One: Remembering; Chapter Twenty-Two: Mourning; Chapter Twenty-Three: Lost Time; Chapter Twenty-Four: Office Work; Chapter Twenty-Five: Life or Death; Chapter Twenty-Six: A Blurred Line; Chapter Twenty-Seven: Write Your Mother; Chapter Twenty-Eight: Anticipating the End; Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Bomb; Chapter Thirty: Waiting; Chapter Thirty-One: Finding the Words; Chapter Thirty-Two: Intentional Time of Remembrance; Chapter Thirty-Three: Never Good-Bye; Afterword. About the AuthorBack Cover.