A Month of Tomorrows
Chuck Walsh
represented by agent Jeanie Pantelakis
published by Mitchell Morris Publishing
www.mitchellmorrispublishinginc.com
A Month of Tomorrows (based on a true story), a memoir dictated to a journalist who gains much more than a story, but also the rebirth of his family. Called to his bedside, Pete is introduced to a simple man whose life is woven between the jungles of the Philippines during WWII and the rolling hills of Tennessee; seen through the eyes of Samuel Gable, a war hero down to his final days on earth. Gable, who is in fact Walsh’s uncle, was accredited for restoring the Ville Verde Monument in 1987 in Luzon which was desecrated after its erection in 1945.
When Pete is asked to write the life and times of Samuel Gable, he has no idea the depth of the river he has been asked to swim, nor where the currents are about to take him. Without regard, he pushes all else aside, including his family, as he is overcome by the waters of the past; waters which he sees as an undertow but in reality is a whirlpool that ends up shooting him up and out to a new life and fresh start. One man’s recollections of war, loyal devotion to God, country and family and determination to put it all into words, will wrench from you every raw emotion and make you wish there were more like him.
Lat 16° 4′ 0N Long 120° 25′ 60E Inland town on the road to Manila, located at the foot of the Villa Verde Trail. Liberated by the US Army 32nd Infantry Division before moving into combat on the Villa Verde Trail.
32nd Infantry Division Villa Verde Monument (1945)
Arrow shaped monument on a concrete pillar. Built by the 32nd Infantry Division’s Company A, 114th Engineers and dedicated on September 20, 1945 prior to their move to Japan, the monument pays tribute to the 916 division men who were KIA during the liberation of Luzon. In 1987, the monument was in a state of neglect due to periodic flooding.
32nd Infantry Division Villa Verde Monument (New)
In 1987 with the help of the veterans of the 32nd and cooperation of the Santa Maria East the monument was restored from March – September 1989. The memorial’s brass plaque reads: “Erected by the officers and men of the 32d Infantry Division United States Army in memory of their gallant
