Now Home Again

About the Book

Ron Jessip’s homecoming at the end of the World War II was a complexity of emotions and experiences common to many ex-GI’s. A decent kid with a plethora of demons, some he brought home from the War, some of his invention, may inherent to his hometown. Early in his search for acceptance, he met a girl who, for many years had idolized him – “a school-girl crush”. She had grown into a lovely, innocent, sweet, yet knowing, young lady with a driving ambition an extraordinary proclivity to be a nurse. Norma Lee (the aspiring nurse) manages to chase many of Ron’s ‘demons’ acquired in the South Pacific. She built a bridge across the schism in Ron’s past family life that denied him solace at home. She accepted without judgment, his past societal transgressions. ‘A happy home-life’ however, was denied them. Several horrible quirks of fate forced Ron to settle for “Home” in an entirely unexpected quarter. It is well into the Epilogue that we wee these two lovers realize their secret slogan, “Love Eternal”.

About the Author

A veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, Frank Crowson served for twenty-five years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As a civilian, Crowson worked as a professional nuclear engineer. He assisted in design and construction of at least sixteen of the nation’s nuclear reactors & fossil fuel stations. With two other engineers, he established CDP Corp. and has been issued four U.S. patents. Married for more than fifty years, with two sons, eighty-year old Crowson, now retired, is attempting a fourth career of turning reverie into rhetoric. He currently has published “Bearing False Witness” (1997; treatise on propaganda); “The Ninth Tier Down” (2001: novel about Antarctica); and “Around The World in 80 Lays” (collection of original poems).