Daniel Thomas ChapmanDaniel Thomas Chapman retired from his thirty-year career in education serving at-risk youth to begin a new hobby/career of traveling and writing. Previous works such as Be Not Forgot, Messages from Vallarta and Poetic Justice suggest appreciation for his newfound, pleasing lifestyle. Although interrupting Chapman's teaching career, however, our author did take an eight-year hiatus to eventually become a Journeyman Field-Construction Boilermaker Rigger, Fitter and Welder. He too struggled while attempting to duplicate his parent's youthful experiences by searching for boomtowns throughout America seeking work as a field-construction, "boomer" welder.War Torn: Mending of a Family, therefore, is partly a tribute to that lifestyle. Our author admiringly reflects, "I come from an extraordinary family who lived through extraordinary times." Read More Read Less