Brothers Resting Forever Together
NORWALK, Conn., July 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Brothers in Arms - Remembering Brothers Buried Side by Side in American World War II Cemeteries will be released on July 4, 2020.
Fourteen American World War II cemeteries are located overseas, holding the remains of over 90,000 fallen service members. In nearly 250 instances, two brothers are buried side by side; in one instance, three brothers rest together.
Kevin M. Callahan was inspired to write the book ten years ago while visiting the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery with his wife and three young sons. Walking through the gravestones, they came across two brothers buried side by side.
"I didn't know the government had a policy of burying brothers next to each other," said Callahan. "As the father of three boys, I found the sight of the brothers resting forever together to be especially poignant."
Artistically designed by Takigawa Design, Brothers in Arms features over 700 original photographs and historic artifacts, collected from the families who lost these brothers.
"It's been an honor meeting these families," said Callahan. "This book is as much about the war as it is about family and the pain of loss even seventy-five years later."
Some stories are reasonably well known, like the Niland brothers, inspiration for the movie Saving Private Ryan, or the Roosevelt brothers, sons of President Teddy Roosevelt.
But many others are less well-known. Like the Pieper twins from Nebraska, recently reunited at Normandy after one of the brother's remains were discovered. Or the Akimoto brothers from Los Angeles, sons of Japanese American immigrants, who fought and died while their parents lived in an internment camp. Or the Lebrecht brothers from New York, Jewish immigrants who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 only to return to Europe as American soldiers, where both perished in the destruction of the Nazi regime they had escaped.
"Kevin Callahan's meticulous research provides a poignant insight to the sacrifice of families who lost more than one son in WWII," writes Michael Sledge, author of Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen. "The stories he lays bare for us vividly tell of the courage, sacrifice, and grief of those who stood by and watched their 'boys' bravely march off in service of a cause greater than their family bonds."
Media Contact: Kevin Callahan, 203-216-1288, [email protected]
SOURCE Brothers in Arms Press LLC
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