When Darkness Comes

by Knapp, David William

• ISBN13: 9781587361616
• ISBN10: 1587361612
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Bookpublisher.Com

Summary

After being shot down over Germany during World War II, Captain Matt Krueger, a bomber pilot, learns that as a result of his wounds he may lose his vision in the future. Without family of any kind and suffering from crippled limbs and head injuries, he returns to his small lakeside cottage in the beautiful forest area of Northern Minnesota.Not certain if darkness will come and determined to live without assistance if it should, he blindfolds himself each day and paces off the distances to various landmarks, learning the interior and exterior lay of his cottage. He memorizes the number of paces to the tool shed, the old rowboat, the various trees in the adjoining forest, and the lakeside dock.Once again meeting Lucy, a young "brat" from his childhood who has now grown into an attractive and intelligent young woman, he uncontrollably falls in love. They are extremely happy.until, after many medical treatments to reverse the degeneration of his vision, he is told that there is no hope and that he will go blind. Devastated, and not wishing to burden Lucy with such