I'm Richard Leitman, author of Dear Roz: Finding the Truth about My Father in his Wartime Love Letters to My Mother.
Dear Roz is a documentation of my journey to find the truth about my father, and at the same time, to find pieces of myself which lay hidden in my shadows, most notably anger and fear. It records my search for the truth by reading my father's letters to my mother from WW II and speaking to him through letters of his own; letting my sorrow, fear, joy, anger and a host of other emotions flow freely from me onto paper. Since this is my search for the truth to foster my growth and healing, this was not the place to put on the proverbial rose-colored glasses and present my father, or myself, as more or less than we were.
The emotions and thoughts presented in this book, especially about my father, are mine and I own them. Come along on my journey that evokes the deepest feelings and thoughts a child can fathom, the discovery of a parent through his own words.
The cover of the book is a photograph of my father's pistol he carried during the war. He put my pictures in the handle, covered with plexiglass from a destroyed German plane.
