After the Flag Has Been Folded

“Bittersweet” - The Oregonian (Portland)

“Karen Spears Zacharias has written a dead-honest, raw-edged memoir . . . wonderfully told” - Joseph L. Galloway, co-author of the New York Times bestseller WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE...AND YOUNG

“One of the most original, heartbreaking and off-the-nose books about the Vietnam experience ever written . . . brilliant” - Pat Conroy

“A beautiful and important book . . . Hero Mama will stay with me always.” - Silas House, Author of Clay's Quilt and The Coal Tatoo

“Touch[es] the hearts of families who have dealt with death, even if the death wasn’t caused by war.” - Las Vegas Review-Journal

“An important and triumphant work of literature, a must read for every American in another time of war.” - Military.com

“Affecting.” - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Zacharias knows firsthand the shock and life-altering sorrow of losing a parent to a war. [An] absorbing and sometimes searing story.” - U.S. Federal News