Trips -N - Ships

Gloucester historian, writer, and my friend and mentor Joe Garland has just unveiled his latest and perhaps greatest work. Unknown Soldiers was a project that Joe had planned to do for quite some time, a chronicle of his experiences in World War II as well as his buddies -both the survivors and those that did not make it. Anyone that knows Joe understands how monumental this undertaking was, scouring memories long forgotten, relegated to his war-time journal or buried down deep in subconciousness. The fact that is took so long for Joe to write all this down is no surprise and it one of the messages of this book: Each generation that goes to war has to learn these lessons fresh - because rarely if ever are the veterans of the past able to bring themselves to tell of the horrors they’ve seen. And so we trudge on through the muck and blood of history….

The book is on sale now and it also has a website that has excellent images from the book as well as excerpts read by both Joe Garland and his old army buddies. Some of these guys are gone now - thank god Joe got it all on tape!

If you are in the Gloucester area on November 18 @ 7pm, Joe will be reading from Unknown Soldiers at The Bookstore on Main Street.

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