Tomorrow's Road Home

In 1989, Mel Carney set out to write a different kind of Christmas letter, and to do so, he dipped into his memories of growing up on an Iowa farm in the 1940s and 1950s. Over the years, his stories traveled from the family farm to his experience as a lieutenant in Viet Nam to the aftermath of 9/11 and became a way to connect the next generation with a childhood where hard work, faith and close family bonds created a backbone that supports him today. These stories bring to life the experiences of day-to-day farming from a kid's point of view, and at the same time, they preserve the memory of the author's parents and siblings for future generations.