{"product_id":"once-upon-a-town-the-miracle-of-the-north-platte-canteen-1","title":"Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen","description":"In search of \"the best America there ever was,\" bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today—a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons.\nDuring World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains en route to their ultimate destinations in Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town, wanting to offer the servicemen warmth and support, transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen.\nEvery day of the year, every day of the war, the Canteen—staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers—was open from five a.m. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. Astonishingly, this remote plains community of only 12,000 people provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food and treats to more than six million GIs by the time the war ended.\nIn this poignant and heartwarming eyewitness history, based on interviews with North Platte residents and the soldiers who once passed through, Bob Greene tells a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 006008197X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 31UIGP002RAN_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Greene, Bob\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685286809661,"sku":"31UIGP002RAN_ns","price":5.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/006008197X-0_a4294d95-9526-4feb-a59a-25c291b34e7d.jpg?v=1762204229","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/once-upon-a-town-the-miracle-of-the-north-platte-canteen-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}