The author, Clemens A. Kathman, 88 (better known as Clem) , is a product of the “great depression”, who worked his way through college, only to have Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo foul up his best laid plans. He was drafted March 1941, assigned to the 200 th CA(AA), which was sent to the Philippines in September 1941. December 8, 1841 the Japanese bombed Clark Field after earlier destroying Pearl Harbor and he was in a shooting war. Bataan, the Death March and 31/2 years as a POW, he was liberated in September 1945.
Fourteen Months hospitalized and almost two years later, July 1947 he was
discharged, married and resumed work in the newspaper. Here he moved through
the transition from hot type metal printing to digital and photo-composition.
Clem retired in 1981 and lost his first wife of 42 years in 1987 to emphysema.
He remarried in 1988 and his second wife died in 1992 of heart and lung
disease. Bachelor-hood and the Masonic fraternity filled in the next 10
years. He met his present wife on the internet and they were married in
July 2002. They live in Brenham, Texas. Both dabble in writing. This is
his first book.