Tom: A Life Saved Lives Lost! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494806781)

Goffinet (née Hutton) was born just weeks after the end of WWII and grew up in Carrickfergus, a small historic town on the water`s edge of Northern Ireland. Although hostilities with Germany had ceased, her father, Tom, was still actively immersed in his post-war RAF duties. The war was not a topic of regular conversation in her home, but Goffinet was inevitably aware of her father`s wartime escape after he had bailed out of an RAF bomber over occupied Europe in 1943. In 1979, Goffinet moved to the United States where she married her husband Ian, also a native of N. Ireland. When Ian retired, the couple moved to the coast of South Carolina. While unpacking in her new home, Goffinet found an old photograph of her father with a group of Belgian children who were visiting Carrickfergus after the war. The photo stimulated a renewed interest in understanding more of the details surrounding her father`s escape, and Tom: A Life Saved- Lives Lost! recounts the intriguing story that Goffinet uncovered of her father`s evasion. Today Goffinet`s personal passion in life is to help stop the environmental destruction caused by plastic in our oceans and in our everyday lives. She has previously published a top-selling book, Sullie Saves the Seas to educate our younger generation about the damage caused by plastic to our global environment. Just as Britain`s lack of preparation in the years leading up to WWII caused Prime Minister Winston Churchill to bemoan the "unwisdom" of the British government, today Goffinet finds a close parallel in the "unwisdom" of the world`s governments in not responding to the "plastic holocaust" that is threatening our planet`s ocean life, despite warnings by oceanic environmentalists such as Captain Charles Moore.