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Mathews, Tom. Our Father's War. Broadway Books, 2005.

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His dad could only bring himself to tell one story from his war experience and that was him coming home.
"For a long time after the war, he could bring himself to tell only one story, and that one happened to him on the day he got home" (chapter 1, pg 1).

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It was his birthday in August of 1945 when his dad was finally coming home from the war. Him and his mom where waiting for him, but they didn't want to get to close, to soon.
"This idea is to get a good look at my father without getting too close too soon" (page 2).

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The day my dad got home i was sitting on a dog house outside and when he got to me, he told me to jump, but i thought it was to far.
"No son of mine will be a coward" (page 3).

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His dad still had flashbacks/memories of World War ll
"I wanted my father's love, he longed for mine; but from the day he came home, the kinetic energy of World War II struck at our center of gravity" (page 4).

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One day he asked his dad if he wanted to go back to the old battle grounds from where his dad fought.
"Look, why don't we go back over the old battlefields where you spent the six months before you came home and started to drive me crazy." And he said, "That's a great idea" (page 15).

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On the start of their trip they where kinda awkward, but by the end they where close.
"It was a transforming trip. We were deeply suspicious of each other when we started, and when we finished, we made peace" (page 24).

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Him and his dad never talked about the war, he always thought his dad had a secret. He thinks the secret is about the war.
"My father always had a secret, it seemed to me, and he would never talk about World War II. He also had a code of honor which was a refusal to talk about World War II. So to me, he was remote, moody. His mood shifted. He was a heavy drinker. And we just couldn't reach each other for our entire lives. And I began to think that that might have something to do with what happened to him in World War II" (page 43).

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He thought his and his father's bond was unique and no one else has gone through it, but there is a lot more people like him.
"Yes, in the beginning I thought it was just me, just me and my father. But when I started to do the reporting on the book and just started to follow my own nose, time after time I ran into other people whose experience was almost the same" (page 52).

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His neighbor was also in the war and couldn't tell the story until his last year of living.

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Him and his father where sitting together and his father said something about the war and busted into tears.
"We were sitting in a small cafe in Bagna di Lucca and all of a sudden, from nowhere, he leaned over and a great convulsion came up within him, and he broke into tears, and he said, "I killed so many people" (page 86).

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He never told that to anyone, and it brought them so much closer.
"I've never said that to anyone. I've never said that to myself." And the secret came out, the code was cracked, and after that, we were able to talk and it transformed our lives" (page 87).

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When we got back he finally got the courage to tell my mom the stories.

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After that day, we talked a lot about the war, he told me a lot of stories even though they where hard to tell.

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Me and my father went back to the battle grounds one day, and he showed me around every where.

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He found some other kids like me that have gone through the same thing, and he decided to text them.

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The other people texted him back and they decided to meet up.

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They all met each other for lunch and just talked about the war and their experience.

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On their drive home from their lunch with the others, him and his dad talked a lot more about the war. His dad cried a lot, but he was their to comfort him.

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After that day they all met up, they got super close and thought of each other as best friends.

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From this day on, him and his father where so much close then before and they also had friends to tell things like this to.

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The book "Unbroken"

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This book "Dad's maybe book" is talking about a guy telling his son's about his experience.

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The book My father's war relates to this book.

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Another book that relates to this one is "The Things The Carried"