On March 6, 1948, a U.S. military transport plane landed at Dhahran Air Base, Saudi Arabia, and Major George Trial stepped out to an overcast desert morning. What had made a young Air Force officer leave his family, a comfortable life and pending promotion in Washington D.C., to travel to a tiny airbase in an isolated desert kingdom on the other side of the world? Born in 1910, George Trial was the only son of a farming family from the tiny village of Muscotah, Kansas. His father, a successful but secretive man, insisted that George attend college and leave farming behind. Tragedy tore the family apart, but his mothers quiet strength helped George regain his bearings. Ruth Wallace was the youngest of three children growing up in placid Nevada Missouri in the 1920s. Ruth was a dreamyeyed child, not at all like her fiery older sister Bonnie, or her happygolucky brother Jack. When the family moved to Kansas City in 1929, Ruth was the most reluctant to leave life in rural Missouri behind. While attending the University of Missouri she developed a fondness for small town Columbia that would shape the rest of her life. George met Ruth in 1938 when they were both elementary school teachers in Kansas City. In May of 1940 they married, and in September of that year George reported for active duty with the Army. When the war ended, George stayed on active duty with the Army Air Force in Washington D.C. Their son, Michael was born in 1946, and Ruth and George felt they were...

Binding: Hardcover;226 pages; Publisher: AKA Yola; Classification: N/A; Weight: 579.49 g; Dimensions: N/A

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