Finding Pete
Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam
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Jill Hunting
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Jill Hunting
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Two days after Jill Hunting turned 15, she lost her only brother, a volunteer with International Voluntary Services and one of the first civilian casualties of the Vietnam War. News broadcasts and headlines announced to the world that Pete had been led into an ambush by friends. When Jill's mother told her that Pete's letters home had all been destroyed in a basement flood, the connection between Jill and her brother was lost forever—or so she thought. Decades later, 175 letters surfaced. Through them, and the sweethearts and many friends who had never forgotten Pete, Jill came to know him again. Finding Pete is one of the great, untold true stories of an escalating war and a young man caught in its sights. This personalized account of a critical moment in US history is the moving story of an altruistic youth who personifies what America lost in Vietnam. It is also a portrait of a family's struggle with loss, a mother's damaging grief, and, most of all, a sister's quest to solve a mystery and recover the connection with her brother.
©2009 Jill Hunting (P)2023 Jill Hunting.....you look around at the world and wonder if such giving. selfless people leave this world to spare them and teach us that toomuch hate and greed exist on this earth.....Pete was the kind of man who could have shown us what is needed to save mankind and how it is missing because of what human kind does and does not do. it is scary and so sad. What an amazing human he was..
Beautiful tribute: sister to brother
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