There Will Be a Highway There

John Dean is a Virginian with a special gift as a career warrior and a heroic example to follow that leads him through the nightmare of the Normandy invasion and Korea. After retiring from the army, he settles down, marries a hometown sweetheart, and becomes a stone mason. “Stress response syndrome,” as they called it in those days, causes him to fail miserably as a father and a husband.

Suddenly, John is an old man, widowed and alone in a retirement community that he can’t adjust to. His o...