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John Holman returned to his South Alabama hometown after four years with the United States Navy shortly after the end of the war in Korea. Returning home to his widowed mother and falling in love with the girl next door. John coached football at the high school of his childhood. John's young wife died in childbirth shortly after the death of his beloved mother. John ended up on the West Coast and spiraled down to standing on the roadside with a work for food sign. After ten wasted years in California he did return to Alabama to begin a new life. John was then united with a grandfather that he didn't know existed. In his late forties John married and old friend from his hometown. Several years later, to fulfill the wishes of his grandfather, John got involved with Alabama politics. He served time as a senator and then four years later in Congress for the Republican Party. Having missed the carnage of 911 by only a few days, he and his wife Marie were ready for retirement on their estate back home in Alabama. Don't glance at the last page of the book; let it's ending come as a surprise.