DON’TCHA KNOW THERE’S A WAR ON

Description

In 2020 at the Battleship North Carolina, President Donald Trump announced the designation of Wilmington, North Carolina, as America’s first World War II Heritage City. This culminated in a 12-1/2 year public-private partnership project through the U.S Congress conceived, organized, and led by the author, a volunteer. Selection criteria: a city’s contributions to the war effort; and its legacy preservation. The National Park Service administers the program.

To tell this story, the author weaves articles from the Wilmington StarNews-a Gannett newspaper in the USA TODAY Network–into an anthology, or compendium, of life, culture, and harsh reality on the area’s home front. He either wrote them or served as a writer’s principal source. They read as a memoir of wartime Wilmington and a tribute to its Heritage City preservation, and his life growing up there during the war.

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Simply Francis Publishing Company (2026)
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 978-1630621001
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