I spent three years in the Marine Corps, including a year fighting in Korea. I never talked very much about my tour of duty in Korea because the memories were too painful for me to revisit. I finally reached a point in my life where I realized that I had to exorcise these ghosts from my mind. That's when I started thinking about writing this book. It wasn't until I retired that I had the time to do this. Another reason for writing this novel was to tell how it was to experience this part of the Korean War. Other than veterans who fought or served in Korea, relatively few people know anythi more...