The Little Lead Soldier

Topic: What does a little lead soldier know about World War I?  Everything, when he travels in the dispatch bag of a colonel who fought in the trenches of Vosges and in the major American battles of St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne.  That colonel was the grandfather of today’s speaker—Hugh D. Wise, III.  The book is a collection of the Colonel’s letters to his son though the voice of the Little Lead Soldier.

Bio: Hugh D. Wise III graduated from Princeton University in 1964 with honors in History.  In the Peace Corps, Hugh lectured in Brazilian universities.  After graduation from law school, Hugh practiced law in Grand Junction from 1969 to 1987.  After retirement, he moved to Aspen with his wife Mary and has lived there ever since. .