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Your Loving Son, TY

Madsen “Ty” Cobb Kokjer grew up in a small city in the middle of Nebraska. Halfway through college in 1940, he chose the adventure of becoming an Army Air Corps pilot instead of finishing his studies. This book is the memoir he might have written about the war he so unexpectedly found himself in the midst of…

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About Jody

Jody Beck is a longtime journalist in Washington, D.C. She was a reporter for The Washington Star, an assignment editor at WRC-TV, taught journalism at the University of Maryland, and was director of the Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington Program. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland-College Park.

Beck is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. Her mother, Phyllis Kokjer Beck, was Madsen “Ty” Cobb Kokjer’s cousin. Ty’s parents were occasional visitors to the Beck household. But Beck was an adult when she learned about Ty’s wartime story and that his diary and hundreds of his letters and those written by his parents and other relatives were waiting for someone to tell the story of a young man who went to war.

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