FROM THE INNOCENCE OF CHILDHOOD TO THE TRIAL AND TRIBULATION OF WAR. Ten year old Tommy was happy and content living on the small East Texas farm he shared with his father. That is until the young lady, Becky, was hired on as help. For she saw the boy as nothing more than a simpleton of questionable background, an obstacle getting in the way of the interest she had developed for his father. And if not for the dreams, the visits from his departed Mother, Tommy's naive views of life in the 1930s South could surely do him harm, changing life as he knew it. But sometimes the circumstances can change and come from an unlikely source.for better or worse.