Author: Steve Byas
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Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781420817140
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Save Them For The Junkman, is a work inspired by actual events affecting and shaping the author's life, fictionalized and embellished for effect. Growing up, my brother and I worked for (The Junkman) an uncle who owned a scrap iron and wrecking yard, a wonderful man who often entertained us with war stories, which I found enthralling, but suspected he "embroidered" with each telling. To my eternal regret, only after his death, did I discover, he was indeed a great hero, and a greater man. Among his affects was a moth-eaten uniform festooned with cobwebs and medals. He'd made every combat jump in W.W. II, and one in Korea, where he'd been captured and held prisoner in the freezing hell of Manchuria for almost two years. Unattended, starved, his wounded arm had frozen, rotted off, wasting his once strong body to that of mere skeleton. It is with grateful heart, and fearsome pride that I use my own experience, and imagination coupled with his Homeric tails, and heroic deeds, as an inspiration for this humbly wrought, but awesome narrative, and by doing so, perhaps, Save Them For The Junkman.
