Jim MorseJim Morse grew up in a very small town in southeastern Oklahoma, majored in physics at the A&M College of Texas, received a medical degree from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, and was board certified in internal medicine and the subspeialty of pulmonary medicine. He served six years in the US Army (Japan, Korea, and Germany), eight years in a mission hospital in Colombia, and twenty-one years in teaching hospitals of the Department of Veterans Affairs and their affiliated medical schools. He has previously published writing of scientific articles in professional journals. In retirement, he pursued fiction and non-fiction writing. In his fifth novel, Long Way Home, he returns to his roots in a fictional town in Oklahoma, loosely basing the first part of his story on the town and people he grew up with the second part a composite of the experience of such people going off to fight in World War II. Read More Read Less