Through this riveting memoir

The reader is invited to co-pilot the authors rocky journey of failures, triumphs and hard-fought lessons that span from childhood, decades of military service during the tumultuous era of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, all the way to retirement as an honorable airman from the U.S. AirForce.

In A Triumphant Soul

The author details his experience returning from an overseas deployment to the United States during a time in history when Jim Crow laws were being enforced. He recants in detail the humiliation of suffering through emasculating and dehumanizing racial injustices and mistreatment stateside, while wearing his official, government issued military uniform.

Despite the indignities and frustrations described, he nevertheless served faithfully and honorably. The main character and narrative voice, EJ Tucker, uses these accounts to convey the lesson that a Triumphant Soul can be defined in a number of different ways, which he concludes for his own life is less about a measurement of success against the world's standard. It is more about a person's ability to rise from a deficit to overcome insecurities, fears, and obstacles.