Colorado Independent

 Publishers' Association

  2009  "EVVY" Book Award         

1st Place - History

Colorado Native Documents

  The Toll of War in Family Memoir 

Forever And A Day is a true story of conflict, hope, and survival. The author follows the wartime experiences of seven members of his Colorado farm family. By utilizing a treasure-trove of previously unpublished correspondence, post war remembrances, and other primary sources, which include excerpts of interviews with veterans whose journeys paralleled those of his family, a seamless story unfolds of global conflict and personal survival for four Jensen brothers who fought in Europe and the Pacific. In addition, the author’s soldier father also faced an uncertain future in the wilderness lands of western Canada and in Alaska where thousands of civilians and GI's labored under difficult, if not impossible conditions to complete the Alaska Military Road, the Canadian Oil Project, and the Northwest Staging Route. Not forgotten in the rush to defeat the Axis forces are the experiences of Mary Jensen whose wartime letters provide an indelible picture of a family’s duress on the home front.

 "What is the price of war on those sent away to fight in distant wars, and those who remain behind on the home front? This is the central question explored by author and Colorado native Eric Jensen in his family memoir, Forever and a Day: The World War II Odyssey of an American Family."

With the previously long list of World War II survivors growing alarmingly shorter by the day, we can be grateful to Eric Jensen for compiling this sensitive and touching portrait of how the war affected his family. It will be a rare reader who is not moved by this deeply felt, personal account, a wonderful snapshot of one family's odyssey during America's darkest hours."  

-Flint Whitlock, author of The Rock of Anzio 

"Forever and a Day is a heart-felt, insightful look into the enormous sacrifices made by individuals from one American family who went off to fight in the largest and deadliest war in history. First-hand documentation of the brutal efforts required to sustain the often-overlooked Canadian/Alaskan Theater is an especially valuable addition to the historical record of the Pacific War." 

-Anderson Giles, Professor, University of Maine at Presque Isle, award winning film maker and noted Pacific guide and lecturer.

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