My Father’s Journal

W.J. Astore

New Book by Me!

It seems like forever and a day, but I finally published my dad’s journal with my notes and photos at Amazon. Here’s the link.

It’s available for $10 in paperback, $5 on Kindle, or free if you have Kindle unlimited.

Here’s my description of the book:

Before he died, my father wrote a journal about his life. Born in 1917, he lived through the Great Depression, served in the Civilian Conservation Corps (mainly in Oregon) in the 1930s, survived working in factories and in the U.S. Army during World War II, and eventually became a firefighter for the City of Brockton (MA), serving for over 30 years.

Though he never finished high school, he read philosophy, loved classical music, and was an avid opera fan. The son of Italian immigrants, his story is the story of America, the story of a young man who worked hard and who in the process acquired a lot of wisdom from life’s setbacks.

This journal recounts many episodes in his life and the lessons he learned from them. It is one remarkable note in a fanfare for the common man.

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I started transcribing my dad’s journal soon after he died in 2003, but it took me two decades to put it all together in book form. If you find time to read it and you like it, perhaps you can bop on over to Amazon and write a review of it.

Thanks so much to all my readers. I hope you enjoy my book about my dad.