Author biography – J. L. Kunkle

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J. L. Kunkle was born in Maine in 1964. His father was an officer in the United States Air Force, and he and his two older brothers moved with the family from Nebraska, to Florida, to Indiana, finally ending up in Southern California in 1970, and then four years at Beale A.F.B. in Northern California.

This military background combined with his own tour in the United States Marine Corps during the Reagan years have given him an insightful perspective about martial values; war, peace, life, and death that he has applied full bore to his telling of the true life’s story of Carlos Montoya, a survivor of three years and ten months of imprisonment at the hands of the Japanese in World War II.

He has two grown children, Joshua and Tandria and he currently resides with his wife Torrie in Murrieta, California.