Etta Jones was not a World War IIamp160soldier or aamp160 war time spy. She was an American school teacher who in 1941 who along with her husband Foster agreed to teach the Natives on the remote Aleutian island of Attu.amp160 They were both sixtytwo years old when they left Alaskas mainland for Attu against the advice of friends and family. amp160 Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922.amp160 She planned to stay only one year as a vacation but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. She married and for nearly twenty years they taught in remote Alaskan villages including their last posting onamp160 Attu Island at the far end of the Aleutian island chain. Ettas life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942amp160 when almost 2000 Japanese military men invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war. She was taken from American soil to Japan and given up for dead. This is the story of a brave American a woman of courage and resolve with inextinguishable spirit.amp160