Portraits of a Soldier: The Extraordinary Life of Jon Lippens Mermaids a former presidential aide and

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Portraits of a Soldier: The Extraordinary Life of Jon Lippens Mermaids a former presidential aide andAt age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In 1939, thirteen year old Jon Lippenss worst troubles found him in a predawn Nazi invasion that left his hometown of Ghent, Belgium, enveloped in mass death and destruction. His childhood ended that day. Jons life thereafter was a series of traumatic events and close scrapes with death. He resisted Hitler Youth recruiters and avoided being sent to death in a labor camp,