Dad The Man Who Lied To Save The Planet
This book recounts the life of the authors hero-father (Grant Pratt). A simple, everyday, blue-collar working man, who was never important to the world at large A man who moved dirt with his hands to make a living for most of his adult life. An uncomplicated man, who would be embarrassed by all the fuss being made about him by his proud father.
To enlist in the great cause of World War II, Grant Pratt had to go against everything he had been taught - he had to tell a lie. He had to "fudge a bit" for a greater purpose. He added a few pounds to his weight so he could meet the minimum weight requirement for enlistment.
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A veteran of World War II, and a member of the generation Tom Brokaw has called "the greatest generation," skinny Grant Pratt lied about his weight to enlist in the United States Army during world War II. He was an unpretentious man who acquired little of this world's wealth. What he did possess, in rich abundance, was a set of old-fashioned values, which he somehow succeeded in passing along to his family of ten children---values that current readers are bound to find refreshing. In this loving tribute to an "ordinary" dad, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author James Pratt evokes a simpler time in American history--the years following The Great Depression and World War II, when Southern California was still filled with dusty little towns and when a man could have purchased the bean fields that have become LAX for $5 an acre, except that no one had five dollars. James Pratt reminds us of the twelve timeless virtues that are in increasing short supply in today's world and reaffirms for today's dads the unique power a father has to shape and mold his children's characters. |
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