Speaker Series: Daddy Bear Goes to War: The Story of a Father's Participation in WWII and the Cartoons He Drew

At the peak of middle age, when you have many responsibilities and suddenly a distant threat arrives close to home, and you feel called to help, how do you justify leaving your young family and sacrificing your thriving career for the greater good? How do you stay the course at every unexpected turn along the way? How do you keep a positive attitude during the devastation of war and simultaneously give encouragement with humor to your family left behind? After the mission is accomplished and many friends and comrades are lost, how do you successfully return to the life you left?

When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, Jim Greene was living in Washington, D.C., and intimately aware of Hitler’s threat to democracy. He was 42 years old, married with three young children, and developing his advertising agency from D.C. to Boston. How could he contribute to the war effort while managing his current responsibilities?

The book will be available for purchase with 100% of the proceeds going to Fort Ritchie Community Center.

About Mary Page Greene

Mary Page Greene enjoyed getting to know several relatives, visiting ancestral homes, and learning much about United States history while writing this story. She plays tennis and tends her garden in Southwest Virginia while researching her next book. She has two children and two grandchildren.