{"product_id":"after-the-flag-has-been-folded-a-daughter-remembers-the-father-she-lost-to-war-and-the-mother-who-held-her-family-together-9780060721497","title":"After the Flag Has Been Folded: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost to War--And the Mother Who Held Her Family Together","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaren Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966--in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry--and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands of a frightened young widow with no skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother's remarkable courage, strength, and stubborn tenacity, a family in the midst of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to achieve its own version of the American Dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning on the day Karen learns of her father's death and ending thirty years later with her pilgrimage to the battlefield where he died, half a world away from the family's hometown, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Flag Has Been Folded\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father, a daughter and her nation--and a poignant remembrance of a mother's love and heroism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZacharias, Karen Spears:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eKaren Spears Zacharias\u0026amp;nbsp \u0026gt;is an author\/journalist, and Gold Star daughter whose father was killed in Vietna \u0026gt;. Her work has been featured in\u0026amp;nbsp \u0026gt;the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Huffington Post and Newsweek \u0026gt; She was named 2018 West Virginia's Appalachian Heritage\u0026amp;nbsp \u0026gt;Writer by Shepherd University and West Virginia's Center for the Book. Karen's debut novel, \u003cem\u003eMother of Rain\u003c\/em\u003e, was awarded the Weatherford for Best in Appalachian by Kentucky's Berea College. Karen \u0026gt;as served on the national advisory boards for \u0026gt;he Vietnam Women' \u0026gt; Memorial Fund and the Vietnam Memorial Wall Foundation. \u0026gt;She lives in Deschutes County, Oregon, with her dog Hemingway, and volunteers with programs designed to help veterans and Gold Star familie \u0026gt; She can be reached at KarenZach.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513697112338,"sku":"9780060721497","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a7175a3-4cf9-4ffd-b86f-4f98bf7beb10.jpg?v=1730965640","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/after-the-flag-has-been-folded-a-daughter-remembers-the-father-she-lost-to-war-and-the-mother-who-held-her-family-together-9780060721497","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}