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Speaker 1: Alec Carris showing me an ancient looking, shabby notebook filled

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Speaker 1: with handwritten script.

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Speaker 2: What's interesting, Look how small this is? It's really small. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it is so basically able.

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Speaker 1: To be carried in a pocket.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 3: But the other thing is how already have time to write?

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Speaker 1: The Framingham resident spent four years translating this book from

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Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen once he realized what it was. The emotional

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Speaker 1: musings of his father from the Asia Minor campaign, when

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Speaker 1: Greece invaded Turkey more than one hundred years ago.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of poems. In the poems he

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Speaker 2: really shares, like his deepest feelings.

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Speaker 1: With the help of researcher in Greece, Alec was able

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Speaker 1: to understand his father's day to day writings. He says

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Speaker 1: he remembers the man as serious and sober worlds away

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Speaker 1: from this diary.

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Speaker 2: In some ways, it was kind of sad to realize

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Speaker 2: he hadn't really shared that side of him.

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Speaker 1: Alec has published the diary as a book now available

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Speaker 1: to the public. Kyle Shaffele WZ Boston's news radio