War Memorial in Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen M. Rodgers

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Johnnie was abandoned by her mother, Victoria Grubbs, raised by her granny, and remembers only moments in her life when Mama blinked in and out of existence. Her father, killed in Vietnam, is rarely spoken of, if at all. The war memorial is a place of connection…for all three.

Johnnie Come Lately touches the heartstrings of every reader in one tune or another. Published by Camel Press