Review: Not For Everyone, But A Cool Piece of History
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2014
The book is a short read, but it was an eye opener for me.  The only things I knew about military family life was from the movies, and it's always portrayed as good living until they leave the base - but I had no idea there were hotels in the bases, apartments, dorms, etc - in the movies all you see is the barracks in boot camp and nice houses.  You also get a feel of what it's like for the kids to move around so much - I knew it happened, but I had no idea it was that often.The story itself is memoir, so there is no real "plot", but rather a snapshot of the life of a family while one member is in the service.  As is this author's style, there were plenty of pictures so the reader could visualize what the times, the bases, clothing, cars, buildings, etc. were like, which was pretty cool.  As to the lower-rated reviews, they probably didn't know what type of book this was, but it was definitely not badly written - but it's not for everybody.  It's mostly going to appeal to army families or someone doing research, or people who enjoy memoirs.  I liked it.