What was the impetus to publish now?
My wife, mother and sister have always been very encouraging, and my wife even bought me Arielle Ford’s “Step by Step guide for Authors — It’s everything you should know.” But the main kick in the pants came one summer night in 2005 when I had been talking to Jack Authelet, former editor of the Foxboro Reporter, our Town Historian, and one of the wisest men I know. He was telling me he’d been interviewing veterans of World War II for a book he was writing. Many of the veterans had never shared their stories, the events they witnessed, the historical accounts. Jack noted that so many WWII vets were dying, their stories untold. He made it his mission to get as many of the stories as possible collected into a book for posterity. For many of these men, their interview with Jack was the first time they’d fully related their experiences. Jack told me that many tears were shed. I thought about what a precious gift Jack’s book would be — a very important historical account that would otherwi
