A Soldier's Journey has something to please any reader - romance, history, adventure, drama, poetry, a quietly epic feel, a magnificently rendered landscape, and eclectic characters unlike any of the 'ho-hum' heroes of lesser fiction. Having once entered John Chapman's world, readers will want to linger, holding close one of the most pure-of-heart and earnestly crafted narratives in recent memory." Writers Digest Lori Moyer is devastated by an e-mail from far away Wisconsin. "They are tearing down the old dairy barn on your home place and selling it off in pieces." Lori pleads, "It is not just a barn. It is an icon--a way of life!" When a journal is found built into a beam in the hayloft, her son sends it to her, explaining, "no one here knows John Chapman who wrote this, perhaps you remember him." Yes, Lori indeed remembers John as a father figure, who thought of her as his own little girl, who rescued her often, and told her stories that guided her life. He was hired to finish the barn and stayed on to run the dairy. She types in his name on a search engine and the Internet sends back two news items from 1925, telling of John's disappearance from his own farmstead, and describing how a posse found him a week later hiding in the loft of his barn. Why that happened five years before he came to work for us, Lori reasons, perhaps it explains why he came. Dismayed but intrigued, Lori reads "The Necklace of Words," John's account of his life after fighting in the trenches of World War I. Beginning in 1930 when he was hired, John writes eloquently in poetry and prose, of his ongoing battle with what today we call "Post Traumatic Stress." Lori finds herself captivated, as she once was as a child sitting at John's feet, but this time, as she reads of his pain and longing, relives his nightmares, and encounters her parents and herself through his eyes. She reads of Whinneboujou, and his Mule Sweat Lodge where John and her father went to learn the wisdom of the ancient Anishinabe Indians. Did those encounters help John heal from his losses? Did they help him to trust in the veteran's group he later joined? Lori revisits her animal companions, laughs at her father's Irish sayings, and travels with John up Jacob's Ladder, the mystical light beam through the high windows that turned the barn loft into a cathedral. "The War of the Worlds", broadcast in 1938 terrified the nation. Neighbors gathered in the great dairy barn, listening to the radio there, grimly planning to make their last stand. Lori reads that story as John, who had encountered first hand the poisoned gas and the machines of war, wrote it. Realizing she has crafted her life around what they had shared in the dominion of the barn, resplendent with new found respect for her heritage, and for John's "little girl," Lori holds his journal dear. Her signature used playfully for years, takes on new meaning: "My barn burned down and now I see the moon."

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Growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm on the south shore of Great Lake Superior, Susan Carnes at age 10 could turn square corners with a tractor while cutting hay, gentle and race horses, play Rachmaninoff on the piano, and get some blue ribbons for her artwork at the fair. An avid skier and skater during the winter months, her best times were on the rivers, canoeing, fishing and swimming. She loved to read stories and direct plays. After a degree from Iowa State University, she married, taught school and earned two Master's Degrees while farming and raising three sons. Susan counseled in addiction programs, practiced art therapy and biofeedback in chronic pain centers, and later became a school counselor in Oregon. When she moved toward retirement in Washington State, Susan coordinated 4-H on 5 islands, went back to school, mastered stained glass techniques, continued hobbies of dancing and white water rafting, and then she got busy. While spending winters in Mazatlan, Mexico, Susan joined a writers group and wrote her first book, My Champion, about a 10-year-old girl who didn't appreciate what she had. She illustrated it with 21 oil paintings and used her grandchildren as models. "Writing for me is like putting together pieces of my own life and making sense of it," Susan says. The book won a Golden Moonbeam Award and was an honorable mention in competition at the Hollywood Book Festival. Her second book, The Way Back is about the struggles of a World War 1 vet to deal with PTSD. Susan's father and several of the men he hired to run his dairy were veterans of the "War To End All Wars." Because of her experiences growing up with them and later counseling with veterans in treatment centers, she felt compelled to write their story, wanting to provide hope and to honor those who fight our wars. The story begins as the old dairy barn on Susan's home-place is being demolished; it ends with personal insight giving meaning to a saying Susan had used playfully: "My barn burned down and now I see the moon."

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