Tomy: Story of a Boy

by Marsh, Ralph; Stipe, Gene; Adams, Gil

• ISBN13: 9780970430915
• ISBN10: 0970430914
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Spring Mountain Pr

Summary

As a youth, Tomy often listened to President Franklin D. Roosevelt deliver his wartime radio addresses. Those words led Tomy to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after his 17th birthday and to enter the gallant fight during World War II.A gangly, six-foot, three-inch boy known as "Slim" to his buddies, Tomy saw action in three Pacific Theater campaigns. His experiences as a soldier are vividly recounted.While serving his country on those Pacific islands, Tomy would often relive his happiest childhood memories that took place with his grandparents and family on the dusty, country farms of Delaware County, Oklahoma.While the authors most eloquently write the details of Tomy's young life, they also bring to life the deepness of Tomy's relationships with his mother, his father and the brotherhood of men he sought to protect while in uniform.

Author Biography

Ralph Marsh spent 33 years in daily newspaper work in Oklahoma and Kansas, becoming the youngest newspaper executive in the state of Kansas at the Topeka Capital-Journal, a writer and editor for The Associated Press, Capital correspondent for the Tulsa Tribune and a prize-winning contributing editor of Oklahoma Today magazine. Gene Stipe served his region of Oklahoma in the state legislature for more than 50 years, all the while collecting stories from those surrounding him.