When bullets are fired on foreign battle fields they also destroy lives and families thousands of kilometres away. Anzac Day remains a very sad day for the family, Evans says.
Louise Evans, a journalist, has opened her familys wounds in her first book, Passage to Pusan, telling the story of a pioneering mother Thelma Healy who struggles to keep her big family together while her sons fight and fall on foreign soil.
Thelma Healy travels by boat and by plane to Pusan (now Busan) in South Korea to find the grave of her war hero son Vincent (Vince), 24, who died in uncertain circumstances.
Having researched and written Passage to Pusan I now fully understand the impact war has and the huge sacrifice Australian families make.
The book provides insight into what one Australian family endures when three brothers go to war between 1945 and 1970 in Japan, Korea and Vietnam and the impact their fate has on their mother and seven siblings.
