CLAY SOLDIERS – ONE MARINE’S STORY OF WAR, ART, & ATOMIC ENERGY

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Rada, Jr., James. Legacy Publishing, 2016. Softcover, 245 pp. Black & white photos. Signed by the author.

Chuck Caldwell was always fascinated by history, so much so that as a 14-year-old boy he traveled to Gettysburg, Pa., in 1938 to meet with Civil War veterans at the last, great Civil War Reunion. Besides the 75th anniversary reunion, he would go on to attend the 100th, 125th, and 150th anniversaries of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Joining the Marines at the beginning of World War II, he went on to fight in some of the most-harrowing battles of the Pacific … Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Guam. He survived with two wounds, a Purple Heart, and malaria.  After the war, he worked for the Museum of Atomic Energy in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and spent summers at the Nevada Test Site collecting data at Ground Zero after atomic bomb tests, sometimes standing beneath mushroom clouds as they rose into the sky.

Through it all, Chuck has his art. He drew, painted, and sculpted miniature figures that have become sought after by collectors around the country.

Later in life Chuck settled in Gettysburg and had a shop in The Old Gettysburg Village directly adjacent to the location of The Horse Soldier, and was well known to the Small family.

Clay Soldiers is the story of a man who became part of this of America and chronicled it through his art. It is the story of an ordinary man who has lived an extraordinary life.

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