The story you are about to read captured the imagination of the author in 1961 and has consumed many hours of his time since then. It was April 25, 1951 The last man standing between the Republic of South Korea and the remnants of an Army of 500,000 Chinese Communists that day was a youthful, blond haired, blue eyed Seventeen Year Old Charles L. Gilliland, Private, called "Gunsmoke," later Corporal US Army, 2nd Platoon, I Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division, near Tongmang Ni Village, Korea. Ironic it is that Gilliland should have been on a plane headed back to his home...