Local Author, Veteran, Former POW Signed to Publish World War II Memoir

    OMAHA, NE, October 11, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Expandable Garrison is a true-story of hope and despair that begins at the start of World War II, as Hill and 18,000 other men and women of America's military are marooned and destined to become prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines. More than three death-dealing years will pass, with the prisoners being used as forced-labor for the Japanese, barely existing on minimal food and almost zero medication before rescue. Memories of home and anxiety about loved ones are the only positives to help sustain tortured minds.

"This is a love-hate tale that's become part of our history," shares Jorgenson. "...and, in the telling, [it] might be an inspiration to society and particularly today's youth battling ill-fortune."

Published by Tate Publishing and Enterprises, the book will be available upon its release through bookstores nationwide, from the publisher at www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore, or by visiting barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com.

Because vagaries of the great-depression of '29 still lingered, in 1939, 18-year-old unemployed Jorgenson, saddened his first-love, Ruth, by joining the marines. His first post was at the International Settlement in Shanghai. World War II took its toll as he and other American POWs toiled as ill-fed slave labor for the Japanese for more than three years. Post-rescue, Jorgenson attended and graduated from Drake University. He immediately was employed by Capitol Records doing Sales and Promotion and ultimately spent thirty years in the phonograph-record industry, before retiring from Musicland.

For more information or interview requests please contact Michelle Whitman, publicist, at (405) 458-5642 or send an email to [email protected].

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