Gone for a Soldier

Lucy Mannings, born in Discovery, Illinois, comes of age amid the bullets of Kent State and the Vietnam slaughter -- angry protests of a nation tearing itself apart. Taught by her father to see war as nothing more than a waste of life, and watching young widows sobbingly accept their lots, Lucy, unwed at forty, rationalizes that Vietnam took her soul mate and her chance of marriage has gone. In Ireland, Patrick Murray, and IRA sniper since childhood, is ordered to execute a prisoner. It is killing so close to his victim that awakens Patrick to the grim reality behind his actions. He deserts the IRA, illegally enters the United States, and to escape Chicago after a near miss by an IRA contract hit man, flees to Discovery, Illinois.