Chandelle

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This is Chandelle

He rises from deep poverty as an orphan to become one of America’s top combat pilots, while hiding and suppressing a deep secret from his past.

She is wealthy, lives a life many can only dream of. She, too, harbors a secret.

They meet by chance in a small town in Japan where no one knows them. He is on a break from combat. She reveals her secret: an expensive divorce looms. He keeps his secret to himself.

Their fiery week-long romance ends with a promise to reunite months later, at the end of his combat tour. The reunion takes place five years later, under challenging circumstances.

This is a story about a romance that endures despite strong obstacles, some self-imposed. Their lives thrive around the lovechild they create in that small town, a son who displays all of their strong traits, plus one that neither parent seems to possess.

This is also a story about war in the jet age, battles in the skies over Korea and Europe, battles that never seem to end. Adversaries that change regularly, war to war, with consequences.

Finally, it’s a story about redemption, how his deep secret, inadvertently revealed, brings him down. How a nation learns to forgive and honor a true hero.