{"product_id":"9780061964459","title":"After the Flag Has Been Folded: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost to War--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaren Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966 -- in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry -- and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands of a frightened young widow with no skills and a ninth-grade education. But thanks to a mother's remarkable courage, strength, and stubborn tenacity, a family in the midst of chaos and in severe crisis miraculously pulled together to achieve its own version of the American Dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning on the day Karen learns of her father's death and ending thirty years later with her pilgrimage to the battlefield where he died, half a world away from the family's hometown, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Flag Has Been Folded\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father, a daughter and her nation -- and a poignant remembrance of a mother's love and heroism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070134927600,"sku":"9780061964459","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061964459_p0.jpg?v=1769888788","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061964459","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}