This is fred's fi rst venture into writing and his very fi rst novel. He is not your typical young, aspiring writer, but is in fact a grandfather and great grandfather doing what many people may have felt inspired to do but never took the fi rst step. Fred is an avid reader of non-fi ction war stories and is a us army veteran whose duties included serving 16 months in korea after hostilities had ceased. Having never attended college, after his service in the army was completed he attended rankin trade school in st. Louis, missouri.(Now rankin college) he served 4 years as a journeyman machinist apprentice at mcdonnell douglas aircraft (now boeing, st. Louis) after 40 years as a journeyman machinist, fred retired and started a successful tax preparation business. Spending so much time at a desk in front of a computer, he began putting his spare time to use writing a war romance novel, incorporating into his characters his faith in god and christian experience
