After The Music Stops Released But Not Recovered [Paperback]

Captain Ben Ringsdorf was locked away for six and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton, the most notorious prison camp in the Vietnam War. After he and the rest of his captive soldiers were freed at wars end, he was greeted with not only a heros welcome, but a ready- made family. However, even with all of the accolades and love he received, Ben faced physical, mental and emotional challenges just as daunting as his imprisonment, ones that threatened to tear his family apart. While things appear to look bright for the Ringsdorf family, their patriarch soon finds himself haunted by past memories and debilitated by alcoholism and a sense of paranoia, signs of the (at the time) not-yet-diagnosed PTSD. After the Music Stops is Gloria Gayden Coronas memoir of her promising  yet whirlwind  relationship with the former POW, chronicling their blossoming romance, Bens repatriation and desire for a medical career, and his struggle with mental illness.