Rory awoke in an Army hospital and learned that he had left part of his leg in Korea. Resolute that he would walk again, his spirits were significantly uplifted by the appearance of a young, very attractive girl bearing a beautiful bouquet of flowers: "Happy Birthday, Lieutenant." And that was how the romance started. She was 17, not 19 as she claimed, and her father was a colonel and she had a very jealous quarterback hanger-on who wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. But they hung in there and survived some very nasty attacks And they proved the power of love.

This book is about a very small, yet important, slice of my life: June 1939 to December 1944. Logically, I should have written it before I wrote Fifteen He Was as he went to war. I didn't for a very important reason; I wanted to be as frank and accurate as my memory would permit. I have said things about some people that are not very complimentary. Most of those people have passed away. I have met with some of the others and they understand, and appreciate, my feelings. In many cases, the acts that I viewed so negatively at the time were justifiable due to conditions of which I had no...

"When I first saw him he looked like a little baby - but he was a man, one of many we were here to repair as best we could. He was laying there with his eyes open. Could he see what is going on?" And Ana, a highly skilled surgical nurse fell in love with Private Leo Molina, married him, and despite the Army's (and VA's) dropping him like a hot potato, helped him restore his full functionality. A story of success born of tenacity, loyalty and love.