Landmark Day

On Friday, I completed the seventy-seventh of seventy-seven profiles for the book — truly a landmark day. This brings to a conclusion a more than year-and-a-half effort to locate images, research the lives of the soldiers, compile notes, and write their stories. This is also the beginning of an approximately three-month period during which I will read and reread each story from readability, grammar, and fact checking. I’ll also be sending copies of the manuscript (minus the front and back matter) to the twenty-plus folks identified earlier this fall.