About This Tender Man – My Father’s Story by Rich Nelson
“My father nearly died of malaria in the jungles of World War II New Guinea” – the opening sentence of This Tender Man – My Father’s Story – the journey of an ordinary man thrown into war and forever affected by its cruel aftermath. It is a story of a Midwestern boy lovingly raised by Swedish immigrants, an adolescent coming of age during the early years of the Great Depression, and a young adult whose innocence is shattered by war in the tropics of the South Pacific. A man selflessly committed to family and community in his post-war years, though haunted by the demons that followed him home, and, in his final years, a hellish descent into Alzheimer’s. He carried throughout his life the characteristics of the “Greatest Generation” – service, hard work, and humility.
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