{"product_id":"after-the-flag-has-been-folded-a-daughter-remembers-the-father-she-lost-to-warand-the-mother-who-held-her-family-together-isbn-9780060721497","title":"After the Flag Has Been Folded: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost to War--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaren Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966—in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry—and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands of a frightened young widow with no skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother's remarkable courage, strength, and stubborn tenacity, a family in the midst of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to achieve its own version of the American Dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning on the day Karen learns of her father's death and ending thirty years later with her pilgrimage to the battlefield where he died, half a world away from the family's hometown, After the Flag Has Been Folded is a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father, a daughter and her nation—and a poignant remembrance of a mother's love and heroism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis powerful memoir is a testament to what happens when the worst comes to pass—and the unshakeable love that holds a family together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Daughter's Search for Truth:\u003c\/b\u003e Thirty years after receiving the telegram, a daughter journeys to the Ia Drang Valley to stand on the battlefield where her father died, seeking answers and reconciliation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe True Cost of War:\u003c\/b\u003e A portrait of a young widow with a ninth-grade education, left to raise three children in a Tennessee trailer park, and her tenacious fight for her family's version of the American Dream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Southern Coming of Age:\u003c\/b\u003e An unflinchingly honest look at growing up in the 1960s South, navigating poverty, family chaos, and the confusing legacy of a war that divided a nation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Mother's Unsung Heroism:\u003c\/b\u003e A powerful and poignant tribute to the strength of a mother whose courage and stubborn love held her children together after their world fell apart.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eKaren Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966 -- in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry -- and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands of a frightened young widow with no skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother's remarkable courage, strength, and stubborn tenacity, a family in the midst of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to achieve its own version of the American Dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning on the day Karen learns of her father's death and ending thirty years later with her pilgrimage to the battlefield where he died, half a world away from the family's hometown, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Flag Has Been Folded\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father, a daughter and her nation -- and a poignant remembrance of a mother's love and heroism.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Bittersweet” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian (Portland)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Karen Spears Zacharias has written a dead-honest, raw-edged memoir . . . wonderfully told” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph L. Galloway, co-author of the New York Times bestseller WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE...AND YOUNG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most original, heartbreaking and off-the-nose books about the Vietnam experience ever written . . . brilliant” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePat Conroy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A beautiful and important book  . . .   Hero Mama will stay with me always.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilas House, Author of Clay's Quilt and The Coal Tatoo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Touch[es] the hearts of families who have dealt with death, even if the death wasn’t caused by war.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLas Vegas Review-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An important and triumphant work of literature, a must read for every American in another time of war.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilitary.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Affecting.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Zacharias knows firsthand the shock and life-altering sorrow of losing a parent to a war. 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