World War II Letters of Veale F. Moriarty
It is 1944. He is twenty-five years old, and he is going to war. Veale F. Moriarty crossed the English Channel after D-Day and fought in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. He was awarded the Iron Cross and the French Croix de Guerre. Once a week he wrote to his mother, Muno, in Jacksonville, Florida. As he traveled across Europe, he found pets and girlfriends until the day he met his future wife, the French woman Andrée Boziére, in Paris. She asked him to look after her dog. "Muno," he wrote, "Do you know how to make puppies eat?"