Below smoky skies, Mette looked out of the cottage window with a frown on her seven-year-old face. She could see father working in the tulip field and wanted to be with him. He used to take her along everywhere he went, but not anymore. “Too dangerous,” he told her. “There is a terrible war going on and we are in the thick of it!”Above smoky clouds, Evan looked out of his B-17 Bomber. Other planes flew so close that their wings almost overlapped in tight formation to prevent enemy planes from separating them. World War II had wrapped itself around the earth like a dark, scratchy blanket. Nineteen-year-old Evan, now an airman, sat right in the middle of it!Bad things happen to good people, yet many choose to remain good and be grateful like those in this story.