In this book, which stemmed from a documentary done by KQED in San Francisco, Scott Blakey applies his considerable talent as a writer to the task of telling the story of Commander Richard Allen Stratton's personal and his family's ordeals during his years of captivity in a Vietmanese P.O.W. camp for over six years.

The story is honest and straightforward. No details of the Stratton's personal story is spared or hidden as they share the pain of the time apart, and the pain of the reunion after so long. It is a powerful story, which runs throughoiut with the strength of the Stratton's patriotism and familial love that kept them together as a family.