Charles Ray McClanton was the son of a wealthy rancher/lumberman. He was enjoying a carefree life style until the faithful day he received a letter from them secretary of the army. He found himself in the horrors of Military basic training to become a fighter plane pilot, in the greatest war the world has ever known. Millions of lives will be lost, families torn apart. Loves lost. What or who will decide, who and what will survive, to go on? A compelling story of love and loss, bravery and luck. until the echo of the last cannon rolls through the hills. In the horror of it all a mother's love never dies.