{"id":145642,"date":"2025-10-19T18:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145642"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:26:40","slug":"mary-meuser-memorial-library-to-offer-a-look-back-at-the-vietnam-and-korean-wars-on-thursday-november-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145642","title":{"rendered":"Mary Meuser Memorial Library to offer a Look Back at the Vietnam and Korean Wars on Thursday, November 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Meuser Memorial Library to offer a Look Back<br \/>\nat the Vietnam and Korean Wars on Thursday, November 6<\/p>\n<p>Mary Meuser Library presents <strong>Barry Willever\u2019s \u201cReflections of a Vietnam Vet\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cA Vision of Life in a Korean War MASH unit through the historical fiction of Rebecca Price Janney\u201d <\/strong> as she discusses \u201cEast of The Sun\u201d, her new historical fiction novel. Join us on <strong>Thursday, November 6, 2025 at the Fellowship Hall of the United Fellowship Lutheran Church, 2115 Washington Boulevard in Wilson Borough, at 7:00 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barry Willever served as President of the Vietnam Veterans of America Lehigh Valley Chapter #415 for over 20 years.\u00a0 He also served as a past Vice President of the Pennsylvania State Council of the Vietnam Veterans of America and is currently the Second Vice President of the Quads Dusters and Searchlight Association.<\/p>\n<p>Local author Rebecca Price Janney will discuss \u201cEast of the Sun\u201d, her first novel in <em>The Heirs of Freedom<\/em> series. The novel is a story of unexpected twists and turns, about God&#8217;s generational blessings, about love in a way seldom modeled today, about hope between a rock and a hard place, all set in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>At fifteen, Rebecca Price Janney faced-off with the local newspaper editor, who nearly laughed her out of his office when she asked for a job. Until she displayed her ace\u2014a portfolio of celebrity interviews she&#8217;d written for a bigger publication. Soon she was covering the Philadelphia Phillies. She&#8217;s now a historian and award-winning author of twenty-six published books, including her beloved <em>Easton Series<\/em>. She lives with her family in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Lehigh Valley where her ancestors settled nearly 300 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Light refreshments will be served.\u00a0 Pre-registration is appreciated.\u00a0 Call the Library at 610-258-3040.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nDaniel Redington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Meuser Memorial Library to offer a Look Back at the Vietnam and Korean Wars on Thursday, November 6 Mary Meuser Library presents Barry Willever\u2019s \u201cReflections of a Vietnam Vet\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145642\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mary Meuser Memorial Library to offer a Look Back at the Vietnam and Korean Wars on Thursday, November 6<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Mary-Meuser.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}