Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 30: December 1972 Uncle Pete was not a war casualty. He died suddenly, at his kitchen table writing a letter to his son Bill, who was on a small island in the South Pacific. Now, Bill was home from that small island, but his father was far away, forever. Bill showed me the note his dad never finished, written carefully in penciled script on a dime store tablet. It readhis dad, my Uncle Pete, that night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.