C. D. Peterson
Carl Douglas Peterson was born and raised on a family dairy farm in New England. An engaging narrator, he is among the last who can write from personal experience about the scarcity of the depression, the fear, sacrifices, and patriotism during World War II and the exuberance in that brief, post-war period when we felt safe and when the middle class was born
Growing up during the war inspired him to become a naval aviator. In1955, days after graduating from high school, he enlisted in the...