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    The Village Bell

    By L.W. Hewitt

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    “By the order of Wilhelm II, Emperor of the German Empire and King of Prussia, all male inhabitants of the Empire and its territories are hereby ordered to report for military duty according to the quotas so established.”

    When war broke out in 1914 no one was safe from impressment. In the villages of the Vosges life would forever change as soldiers dragged the men off to war and opportunists pounced on those who remained. Families torn apart by war fled their traditional homelands or starved to death. When the Great Pandemic swept the countryside, those who survived believed Heaven itself had fallen.

    This is final book of The Juno Letters series ... there will be other stories coming, however.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.W. Hewitt
    Release dateDec 17, 2020
    ISBN9781005706159
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    L.W. Hewitt

    I have coffee most every morning at my "office" - a small table in a 1920s style restaurant and hotel called the Olympic Club in Centralia, Washington. Visitors assume I work there, some think I am the manager. I direct people to the bathrooms - the urinals in this place are a tourist attraction all by themselves. This is where I write. The chaos and atmosphere prep me for the day, and everyone in town knows if you need to talk to me, just drop by the "Oly Club."Most don't know that I have a master's degree in business, and have run my own technology company for nearly twenty of my last forty working years. I won a national championship on horseback, raced sailboats, wrestled octopus, baby-sat a killer whale, and once was a cook on a salmon purse seiner.I have read "A Soldier's Burial' aloud over General Patton's grave in Luxembourg, and said a prayer of thanks at the very spot at Magaret in Belgium where the German panzers were stopped outside Bastogne. I cried on Omaha Beach in Normandy and in the gas chamber at Dachau. I wear a silver Stetson and boots when I travel and answer to "Hey, cowboy!' in several languages.I have led an interesting life - married forty years, have three children, nine grandchildren, and thirty foster children, some with families of their own now. I am now free to pursue my passion for writing - especially about the two great wars of the twentieth century. So I cherish my role as "author-in-residence," or that crazy guy at the table by the urinals - it depends on your perspective.

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