A Time To Remember

by V G Gallagher

Overview

A fast moving memoir full of adventure and romance, comedy and drama, history and nostalgia, as we meet a youth from Queens County, NYC, soldiering from the age of 15, facing the unknown in the Korean War in the early 1950s. Share his teen exploits looking down the barrel of a bandit's handgun while tending the fountain in the local drugstore, on to escapades in the Army, and in private life as he advances from puppy love explorations to his love of a lifetime, all by the age of 20! He and his young bride forge ahead through adversity to success, through tears and laughter, to achieve the American Dream. Journey with them down their path of chance and uncertainty, now looking back and enjoying their triumphs and A Time to Remember. Inspirational and entertaining, it's a story with universal appeal, something for everyone. This memoir may enchant you, humor you, or even bring a tear to your eyes. An entertaining read for anyone and a must for a veteran. The author says it like it was, using the vernacular of those forgotten times and events.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161374160
Publisher:	Vincent Gallagher
Publication date:	07/19/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

The author is an 85-year-old New Yorker endowed with a marvelous memory inherited from his father John Aloysius Gallagher, fortified with a lifetime of records and pictures to keep his memory refreshed. Although lacking a formal college degree, he graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Astoria, New York City, in 1950 and went on to one semester of college before entering active army service as a National Guard soldier during the Korean War. His formal education was sporadic and as a veteran he took advantage of the G. I. Bill and went on to attend, but never completed, college. As his career advanced, requiring him to relocate as he grew, the Gallagher’s lived in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and Pennsylvania. Since his childhood the author has been an avid reader of fact over fiction, which he always found to be much more interesting. He and his wife are library advocates and are familiar faces in libraries in both Pennsylvania and Florida. The author and his wife of 60+ years live in the Philadelphia suburbs while spending winters in sunny Florida. Read more about A Time To Remember, with photos from the print edition and additional stories at the author’s website vincegallagherbooks.com.