While You're Up: A Memoir by John M. Camp, Jr.

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While You're Up, Jack Camp's engaging memoir, covers many topics: The wood products industry, Camp Manufacturing; Union Camp; particle board production; paper mills; paper production; Tidewater Virginia; Franklin, Virginia; Wallace, NC; St. Stephen, SC; farm life: dairy cows; sheep; hog killings; Virginia Military Institute; Babson College; flight school, World War II, the China-Burma-India Theater; General George Marshall; Karachi; Taj Mahal; Ceylon (Sri Lanka); flying The Hump; Rancheros; romance; raising children; deer hunting; the Baptist Church; church missionaries; blacks in the South; quail hunting; coon hunting; fishing; Virginia Beach; the Dismal Swamp; riding; travel; dogs; furniture making; rose gardening; charitable foundations; Figure Eight Island, NC; family reunions, vintage airplanes, and numerous other topics. This charming memoir includes many excerpted letters written by Jack Camp while in India during World War II.