This biographical novel describes the early years of my father’s life. He and his twin brother were born in Indiana in 1917, and as children taken back to a village in what was then Czechoslovakia. After growing up in a territory that changed hands several times, my father was able to escape the Nazis in 1938 by going the Consulate General’s office in Prague to secure his US passport via Section 1 of the 14th Amendment. With war on the horizon it was a courageous journey, fleeing across Europe, boarding a passenger ship, and finally starting a new life in the US in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah and eventually becoming a soldier in the Army Air Corps. It is a true American story in which one twin stays back in war-torn Europe, while the other twin decides to come back to the country in which he was born.
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