Ken Wiley

The Way I Saw It Ken Wiley

The author writes about the things he knows best; the mid-twentieth century, the environment of that great generation, the unity and dedication that they had, the 15 million plus boys who fought World War II, and the hundreds of stories that they had each day. The stories in the book were selected to give the reader an idea of what he saw over that six year period. Being only fourteen when war was declared on Europe and only sixteen when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he saw how the war affected those at home before he joined the combat overseas. Fortunately, because he was assigned as a Cox'n of an LCVP on an Attack Transport, he saw a lot of different places while island hopping across the Pacific. This series of short stories covers a wide range of time and environmental change. The little town is the author's hometown of Itasca, Texas. It will never leave his thoughts, just like the thirty-two young boys from his school, including one of his brothers and four classmates from the class of '42, who never came back.