Review from a reader published on Amazon.com:  It is an excellent book about Glynn County, Ga, my hometown area. It tells of the area during the WWII, the people and the affects the war had on the little town. We had the blackouts where you could not show any light outside of your home for fear of an enemy plane seeing you, shortages of wood for Christmas toys, gas shortages and other difficulties of war time. We also raised our families, had graduations, worked very hard and had lots of good times. The book is wonderful reading for anyone who ever lived there, trained there at the local base or worked at the shipyard. I recommend it for everyone.

Excerpt from a letter from Jay Lamar to Sonja Olsen Kinard, co-author:  "Memories from the Marshes of Glynn: World War II" is a monument to you and Thora both, a testimonial vision, commitment, and perseverance.  It will abide...in the minds and hearts of people for generations to come.

Atlanta Journal/Constitution  in Peach Buzz by Bill Hendrick: Long before Tom Brokaw's best seller, " The Greatest Generation" recorded memories of Americans during World War II, Sonja Kinard set out with  her sister, Thora Kimsey, to record the same kind of slice of life, focusing on what then was the tiny port town of Brunswick in South Georgia...The book contains dozens of poignant accounts of Glynn County residents who recount their memories of those days when America seemed on the verge of losing the war.  It even contains an account of an interview with Kapitan Reinhard Hardegen, the skipper of the submarine that sank the two ships, and many others, along the coast."

Georgia Library Quarterly Review: In the early 1950's a popular radio program later a CBS television program called "You Are There" presented moments in history as current news events. Many will remember the famous words spoken by Walter Cronkite at the end of the program. "...It was a day like all other days, except 'you were there.' These memoirs [from the Marshes of Glynn: WWII] are not only for those "who were there," but also for those who were not there, and who may no longer have a parent or grandparent to describe what those days were really like."