Kirjahaku

In 1947, the author's parents, aided by friends and relatives, purchase land and commence a project to build by hand and working part-time, not only a house but a home, for their six young children over a period of a year. Having successfully completed this seemingly Herculean task and reaffirming the author's parents as members of the "Greatest Generation", the ensuing years will bring many painful and difficult challenges, ultimately causing the home, built out of both need and love, to regress from a home to only a house. Each member of that home finds themselves having to deal with the trauma that this transformational process brings to both childhood and adult years.

D.O.R. deals with the two relatively tumultuous years that Vince Daley spent as an enlisted man in the Marine Corps after being injured during OCS training at Quantico in 1968. It also refers, somewhat obliquely, to the relatively serious subject of the Viet Nam War from the often frustrating and frequently comedic perspective of an enlisted man in the Marine Corps during this volatile period. Anyone who has served in the military, particularly as an enlisted man, should be able to relate to this book