One Soldier's Story
War From the Bottom Up
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The story One Soldiers Story is a tale about a Private's look at the Army and the War that he is in and what he see from the bottom of the chain of command. It takes place as the Private completes basic training and is assigned to Korea in 1947. He endures many hardships that was caused by the rapid exit of the combat soldiers at the end of the Second World War that left all remaining units in Korea terribly short of manpower. He falls in love and looses friends, he is surrounded and almost captured during the War and fights his way out of the frozen mountain of North Korea.
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A private soldier encounters reality when he is assigned to Korea in 1947 after the Second World War. He is brought to physical and mental exhaustion while trying to cope with the demanding requirements of the time. He finds love with a Japanese girl and is betrayed by her when he finds out that she is contraband property. When the war comes, he loses a close Korean friend to a land mine. He is surrounded and is almost captured. He experiences the horrible sights of the battlefields. He has to fight his way out of encirclement at the Chosen Reservoir and down the snow covered mountains of North Korea. On the way down the mountain, his truck is shot out from under him, and he is reported missing in action. Having served four years in the Far East, he was on the first ship that came back to the states.
About the Author
Robert Donald Hannon was born in St. Louis Missouri on the 27 October, l930. He lived in the city and on a farm until he was sixteen years old and then he went into the Army and retired from the service in l968. He was always getting in trouble for daydreaming, in school and on the job, and doing so resulted in many of his stories being born. He wrote stories of love, suspense, and adventure that stirred the emotions and memories of his readers. He found that people were hungry for stories that filled their fantasies. He started writing the stories down. This is one of his stories. He has two short novels that are presently being published, The Last War of Clent Evans and Cowboy Ben O’ Shannon. He is divorced and has three children, two girls and a boy. He lives in Petersburg, Virginia now and is retired.