Mary A. (Kiddie) Ruggieri, author of From Japan With Love

Through personal letters, journal entries and remarkable photographs - assembled and presented publicly for the first time - Mary Ruggieri's book chronicles her time as a young WAC (Women's Army Corps) in Japan from 1946-1948. This remarkable collection of a young American girl's thoughts about and images from her time amidst a foreign, war-ravaged culture is an honest and innocent journalistic record of an important period in modern history.