Everything Is Fine with Me... a "Big Red" Soldier Chronicles His Survival in WWII

In the end, after 36 months of unrelenting battle on the front lines,

the reader sees a true hero emerge from the tormenting nightmare

of war as he begins his process of healing.

So, it was for Ralph Hirschey, who would be among the miraculous

few of the Big Red One to make it home, to return to his mother

Rose, his siblings and the little family farm in upstate New York.