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Death Of Dreams

by Lyman R. Coleman

264 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-0889; ISBN 1-4120-9135-7; US$21.70, C$24.95, EUR17.82, £12.48

It was an age of innocence and hardship leading up to World War II - when young men and women faced the moral dilemma of committing to a war of death and destruction. A time before television when people had to make their own fun.

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This is the story of my family from 1922-1945. It focuses on the life of one brother, Wesley, who was lost overseas in 1943. The cover of this book, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, is highly significant as it is symbolic of the resting place of so many of our countrymen, lost in war, whose resting place is unknown. It opens with his birth in the midst of a raging prairie snowstorm and traces his young life and loves until his death at the age of 21 years. It is a rollicking saga of a family of eight children surviving on the meager income of a clergyman in the lean 20's and hungry 30's. They make their own fun and get into trouble just like the ordinary children they are. The mother, Bea, is from genuine pioneer stock whose thriftiness became a family legend. The father, Stanley, came from a long line of British naval men but he elected to become a clergyman rather than following in his predecessors footsteps. The reader will laugh and cry with the family as it experiences the best and worst of times.

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Lyman Coleman was ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1954 in the Diocese of Ontario where he served first, in the Mission of North Frontenac with churches in Plevna, Ardock and Ompah. His second parish was Bath and Ernestown. In 1958 he became an army chaplain served for 28 years in Canada and overseas. He retired as Senior Chaplain of the Canadian Army.

Lyman Coleman married Wineita Dier in 1955. They have three children: Lyneita, vice-principal of a school in BC; Darlene owns her own public relations business in Ottawa; Wesley, an officer with Corrections Canada.

Lyneita is married to Douglas Swanson, RCAF (ret'd); Darlene is married to Lt Col John Blakeley and is mother to our two grandsons, Sean and Ryan; Wesley, an officer with Corrections Canada, is married to Fiona McKechnie and they are the parents of our granddaughter, Mackenzie.

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