About the Author

Mary Jane Ingui earned her Ph.D. in History at Lehigh University and is also a graduate of Adelphi University. She has taught at the college level for years, has many academic articles to her credit, including an extensive study about Italian-American women in the 20th century, and has been a newspaper correspondent, which drew her into a keen interest in the stories of veterans, such as Capt. Sheldon Kushner, MD, and her own father, Anthony Capozzoli, a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. Mary is married to her husband, Bill Ingui, a life-long educator, and has a son, Thomas, an accomplished organist and pianist currently studying at Yale University.