CAPTAIN EDWARD A. DUFF in Bloomington, MN

Captain Edward A. Duff, The Voyage Home, is the fascinating, first-time-told story of Captain Edward A. Duff, a forgotten American hero who served in WWI aboard the USS Olympia. He worked in the Attaché Office in Paris as part of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Graves Registration Unit, fulfilling the requests of thousands of family members seeking to know the burial sites of their loved ones lost in battle. The Department of the Navy honored Chaplain Duff by selecting him to accompany the remains of WWI's Unknown Soldier from France's cemetery battlefields to the United States for military burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Through a storm-filled voyage across the Atlantic, Father Duff was able to encourage the sailors of Olympia to safely bring the Unknown Soldier home to American shores. Chaplain Duff was known to the famous-presidents, popes, and kings-but he loved best being known to his fellow sailors as "Padre Duff." His life story reveals his amazing climb from the poverty of an Irish Catholic family to become the nation's first Catholic priest to serve as Chief of Navy Chaplains. This book will challenge your patriotism in a time that often overlooks the greatness and goodness of America as a nation and its call to serve others in the world. It will have you wanting to sing the National Anthem and recite the Pledge of Allegiance with renewed pride and vigor.