Be Home Soon: Letters from My Grandfather

Be Home Soon: Letters from My Grandfather is an intimate personal documentary about war and faith, love and loss, family myth and legacy - based on cards and letters my family received from my grandfather during WWII. An Episcopal priest, my grandfather volunteered to be a Chaplain with the 200th Coast Artillery National Guard Unit in the Philippines. The unit left on a train from Ft. Bliss, Texas on the last day of August 1941. My grandfather left behind his wife and three young sons (my father Teddy who was eight at the time, and his two brothers Alfred and John ages 6 and one month old). Having survived the Bataan Death March, my grandfather died as a Japanese Prisoner of War at the Davao Penal Colony.