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Mary Lawlor is Professor of English and American Studies at Muhlenberg College. Her most recent book, Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: A Story of the Sixties and the Cold War, weaves together her scholarly knowledge with her personal experiences as a “military brat.” Her father was a decorated fighter pilot who fought in the Pacific in World War II, flew missions in Korea, and
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was twice stationed in Vietnam. Mary, her mother, and her three sisters followed him from base to base and country to country during his years of service: by the time Mary graduated from high school, she had attended fourteen different schools. These displacements, plus her father’s frequent absences and brief, dramatic returns, were part of the fabric of her childhood, as were the rituals of base life and the adventures of life abroad. As Mary came of age, tensions grew between her patriotic, Catholic upbringing and the values of the countercultural sixties. By the time she dropped out of college in Paris in 1968, she faced her father, then posted in Saigon, across a deep political divide. Fighter Pilot’s Daughter tells the story of the Lawlors’ nomadic life and shows how the global tensions between the US and the USSR sifted down from on high into the moods and dramas of the many homes her family occupied. It adds an important chapter to the collective narratives of American military family life and of cold war America. Mary Lawlor will be at the library on June 24th from 11am to 1pm.
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