What would it feel like; if you learned that a compulsory labor camp had been set up in the hills of your state? More interesting, your father was one of the thousands captured and held. My mother told me this story and most of the names where what she remembered. This sets the scene.
Not anything but silence, no one dared to enter the region that swallowed up their loved ones. Nothing made sense as the wives, mothers, girlfriends and sweethearts began to realize the impact of that morning raid. Here was a country that had just overcome a brief chapter of freedom and like the feelings of old, nothing made sense
This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I w