Echos from the Mountain is the story of one man's service in WWII told through the over one hundred letters he wrote home from 1940 to 1945. It is also the story of a famed military organization that won great honor on the field of battle and continues to defend our nation in the current war on terror. But mostly it is a story about an immigrant family who, like many others, came to this country to find a better life. What they found was grueling manual labor, the privations of the Great Depression and the maelstrom of the Second World War. In the end, America would keep its promise of a better life and would exact its terrible price for freedom.