- ISBN13: 9780743470773
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Product Description
In 1964, as the first B-52s took flight in what would become America’s longest combat mission, an old Air Force base on the plains of Kansas became Schilling Manor — the only base ever to be set aside for the wives and children of soldiers assigned to Vietnam. Author Donna Moreau was the daughter of one such waiting wife, and here she writes of growing up at a time when The Flintstones were interrupted with news of firefights, fraggings, and protests, when the even… More >>
Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War
#1 by WOW on April 2, 2010 - 3:13 am
I just finished reading Donna Moreau’s first book and look forward to many more by this author. Not only is the story well written but it is well researched. She tells it like it was. The thought occurred to me that utilizing the housing of post or bases formerly closed for humanitarian purposes is a wise use of space. Why not use such places to help the displaced people of Hurricane Katrina? We need to open more Schilling Manors not close them. All wives who have ever “waited” would enjoy this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by A reader on April 2, 2010 - 3:26 am
Ms. Moreau has done a fine service to history. When Schilling Air Force Base, Kansas, a SAC B-47 and Atlas F ICBM base, closed in 1965 the base housing area was retained to provide homes and a community for military families with husbands and fathers serving in remote areas, mainly Vietnam. How this was done by a few great Americans, and what it was like to be a teenager there–a military base without soldiers, only waiting wives and children–is the touching and very interesting story told by Ms. Moreau, focusing on her own family and two others.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by B. Flatt on April 2, 2010 - 6:06 am
Reading this memoir I was very interested in Schilling Manor and how it was it’s own little world for the wives and children of service men during the Vietnam war.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Char on April 2, 2010 - 7:32 am
I read this book on a plane today, heading home to MA from visiting my husband’s family for Thanksgiving in Salina, KS. I consider it a gift from my Mother-In-Law that I knew to read this book. A story that has touched my heart. I shed tears, I laughed. I didn’t want it to end…but yet it had to end. I wonder the parallels to the War in Iraq. I wonder how we are taking care of today’s Waiting Wives and Husbands? Much praise to Ms. Moreau.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Rob Stark on April 2, 2010 - 9:56 am
I cannot believe it has taken so long for someone to acknowledge the heroism of wives waiting for husbands to come home from war. Not only is Waiting Wives a much needed book, it is a fantastic, poignant, and extremely relevant story, written in a graceful style that illustrates the highs and lows of living on Schilling Manor, this unique base that I had never heard about. Bravo to Moreau!
Rating: 5 / 5