Book excerpt: Hazel Jordan is a mother trying to raise seven children during The Great Depression. Like so many other mothers across the country, this quiet unassuming woman faced daily challenges to feed and clothe her family on a farm where she and her husband Clarence are sharecroppers in southcentral Kentucky.With letters as their only form of communication, the family mailbox becomes her portal to the world overseas where her eldest son had been sent to do his military duty. Hazel struggles daily, not knowing if her son is alive or if he made the unspeakable ultimate sacrifice. Will Hazel's strength be enough to sustain her until her boy finally comes home, or will he?