Stay Safe, Buddy A Story of Humor and Horror during the Korean War

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by J. Charles Cheek

Review: Promised that he wont have to fight in
combat, instead of being drafted for two years,
19-year-old John Lefter enlists for a three-
year hitch in the Army Security Agency and ends
up in the Korean War.

At first, Lefter has a candy ass assignment
30 miles behind the fighting area. He spends a
lot of time drinking beer, laughing, and
partying. Then he is forced to face his own
mortality after being assigned bunker duty in
the fighting area.

He breaks down after his foul-mouthed buddy is
hit with burp gun fire while saving Lefters
life. In a hospital psychiatric ward, his
recovery is aided dramatically by an innovative
doctor and the only man he has ever hated.

Back on the front line and atop the bunker
celebrating just after the cease-fire, Lefter
is again confronted with a shocking incident
that takes him over fifty years to find closure
for.

PublishAmerica, May 1, 2003 - Biography &
Autobiography - 298 pages

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ISBN 159286631X, 9781592866311