My life changed drastically in 1965 when I was drafted into the US Army. As a young man drafted off the streets, within months I  found myself in Vietnam. A one time  amatuer boxer and a rock 'n' roll musician I was a fish out of water in the military. I adapted, and became an infantryman, a US Army paratrooper.

I served as both an infantryman and a reconnaisance scout. I took my war experiences and my musical carrer and coupled them with my life  post Vietnam, and wrote a fictive account of it all. A sort of memoir if you will.