Raised A Soldier’s Son
The wild and harrowing journey to manhood and military careers of a pair of Army brats raised around the world in the late 1940s and 1950s
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Freed Lowrey and his brother Mark come from a long line of Army brats — the colloquial term for children who grew up in an active military family. As such, they moved across the globe, packing and repacking every few years and, in the process, being exposed to a variety of cultures, customs, and languages, in addition to living within the unique environment of military base life.
In Raised A Soldier’s Son, Lowrey traces the military heritage of his predecessors before focusing on his upbringing in the 1940s-50s from installations stateside to the Far East, causing mischief and mayhem from Japan to Germany, and other places in between. Both brothers would attend, and graduate, from the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point before becoming career Soldiers themselves and raising their own family of Army brats.
This is a wonderful reflection on the adventures of childhood, and how two brothers grew up to be just like their father, true Soldiers.
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“Raised a Soldier’s Son is the often hilarious and always thoughtful story of an American soldier’s family, told from the perspective of a precocious child, one who proudly wears the life-long title of Army brat. Freed Lowrey’s recounting of his childhood experiences as the son of a career Army officer is a compelling and always entertaining account of growing up during the 1940s, 50s and early 60s, a transformational period in American history. Lowrey’s tale describes coming of age in far-away lands amidst foreign cultures, while at the same time learning from his parents the true meaning of selfless service as the family moves around the world from assignment to assignment. Raised a Soldier’s Son is the poignant and engrossing tale of one young man’s journey, one family’s journey, and a nation’s journey. It is a story for us all.”
-—Brigadier General Daniel J. Kaufman US Army, Retired Dean of the Academic Board and Chief Academic Officer, United States Military Academy 2000-2005 Charter President, Georgia Gwinnett College 2005-2013Reviews
“I love Raised a Soldier’s Son. Genuine and sincere, it is a breath of fresh air. Freed Lowrey’s early rejection of his forebears’ inherited racism, and his bracing honesty about nearly everything else, sometimes brought me near to tears.”
-—Ken Burns Documentary filmmaker (The Civil War, Baseball, The Vietnam War, Muhammad Ali, The War, The National Parks, and many moreReviews
“A brilliant, hilarious, and touching memoir of life as an ‘army brat.’ Raised a Soldier’s Son tells an important and overlooked story of family life for a career officer. Freed Lowrey is a born storyteller, deploying wry humor to tell not only his own story, but the story of all Cold War military families.”
-—Brigadier General Ty Seidule US Army, Retired, and Professor Emeritus of History, US Military Academy, West Point Author, “Robert E. Lee and Me; a Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause”Reviews
“Freed and his brother Mark grew up as ‘army brats’ in the years following WWII, the Korean War, and the cold war, before joining the Army and serving thru Vietnam and the GWOT. During that time the Army evolved from a draft-dependent ‘Jim Crow’ male-dominated force to the all-volunteer mixed race and gender force that is today the envy of the free world. Lowrey peppers his narrative with vignettes revealing both the humor and absurdities of life in a parallel universe unfamiliar to most Americans. It is a tale worth recounting if for no other reason than preserving the record of something few of us understand or appreciate.”
-—Robert K. Griffith, Jr. Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Retired Military Historian Author, “Long Ago and Far Away; Remembering Vietnam Fifty Years On” Author, “The US Army’s Transition to the All-Volunteer Force, 1968-1974” Author, “Men Wanted for the US Army: America’s Experience with an All-Volunteer Army Between the World Wars”Illustrator
Book Details
Author: W.Freed LowreyProduct Dimensions: 6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-1-956027-88-4
Cover Type: Hardcover
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