Mrs. Shillaber’s Cookbook: A Practical Guide for Housekeepers (1887)

A Last Measure of Innocence is a fictionalized account of a romance between a soldier and an anti-war activist during the months of April, May and June of 1970 when the Cambodian invasion heightened anti-war sentiment across college campuses and so completely divided our nation. A young soldier returning from Vietnam on a 15-day emergency leave to attend the funeral of a family member seizes the opportunity to seek out his former fiancA©e from whom he received a Dear John letter. The one-time fiancA©e attends a university in San Diego. In the course of the search, he becomes romantically involved with a young coed active in the anti-war movement. Campus confrontations, a National Guard occupation and the Cambodian incursion create obstacles, forcing the couple to examine the beliefs they embrace. Can amake love, not wara be compatible with aduty, honor and countrya? Can one be against the disease but not those it has infected? In the final poem of A Last Measure of Innocence, a line reads, aand chronicle metamorphosis at a terrible cost, a and that is what this story portraysathe record of change in our society that cost us so dearly.