A naive young man anxious to prove himself. A mother determined to protect him from a world at war. A government running short of manpower. And an implacable enemy committed to fighting to the death. What actually happens to this sheltered youth when he is sent to war on the other side of the world?
This tale is a true-fiction story about a typical draftee inducted into the U.S. Army in 1944. Our central character, an aspiring musician, finds himself...