<P>Two days after Jill Hunting turned fifteen, she lost her only brother, a volunteer with International Voluntary Services and one of the first civilian casualties of the Vietnam War. News broadcasts and headlines announced to the world that Pete had been led into an ambush by friends. When Jill's mother told her that Pete's letters home had all been destroyed in a basement flood, the connection between Jill and her brother was lost foreveror so she thought. Decades later, 175 letters surfaced. Through them, and the sweethearts and many friends who had never forgotten Pete, Jill came to know him again.</P><P>Finding Pete is one of the great, untold true stories of an escalating war and a young man caught in its sights. This personalized account of a critical moment in U.S. history is the moving story of an altruistic youth who personifies what America lost in Vietnam. It is also a portrait of a family's struggle with loss, a mother's damaging grief, and, most of all, a sister's quest to solve a mystery and recover the connection with her brother. Includes a reader's guide.</P>

JILL HUNTING is a writer, editor, and radio essayist. She proposed the Book of Remembrance, a sculpture honoring civilians killed in war, for the new headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington, D.C. She lives in Sonoma, California.

Author's Note
Map of South Vietnam
Prologue
The Brunt of It
"Kiss the Sisses Good-bye"
Sand between My Toes
"Just Heard over the Radio"
"A Peaceful Sleep Forever"
Mr. Tall American
"Never Very Good at the 'Why' "
"At War in Another Year"
Trip to Vietnam
"A Promise Is a Promise"
"An Open Question"
"Too Much Talk about Danger"
Pete's Long-Lost Letters Surface
Darkening Skies
"Here Come Blue Eyes!"
"A Wind-Blurred Far Away"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Illustrations follow pages 80 and 224