Ww2 Press Releases

For Memorial Day comes the TRUE story of a WWII soldier's selfless act of valor, and the one town that never forgot.

During World War II, in the jungles of what was then known as the Dutch East Indies, as well as all over the Pacific Rim, all non-Asians were imprisoned in Japanese prison camps until August of 1945, the end of the war in the Pacific.

The TRUE story of how a handful of American soldiers brought Christmas back to a small war-torn town during the darkest days of WWII and unknowingly created a holiday tradition that continues to this very day.

The story of an only son, heir to a family fortune; a small war town town and the only church IN THE WORLD dedicated to a single American soldier. George Mergenthaler was that soldier. "MERG" is his incredibly moving true story.