His recollections of the military service of his four brothers during World War II. His youth on the family farm near Van Alstyne, Texas, in the 1930s; comments about his parents; his brother “Bud’s” military experiences with the 6th Infantry Division in the Southwest Pacific Theater (New Guinea and the Philippines); his brother Bailey’s experiences in the Aleutian Islands; his brother Troy’s military experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater; his brother “Louie’s” draft deferment for doing farm work; his brother “Rube’s” military experiences doing stateside duty ; the effects of wartime military service on his brothers after the war; his decision to quit school and join the Air Force at age fourteen (with a fake birth certificate) in 1946; his stationing to Okinawa, 1947; obtaining a hardship discharge from the Air Force after his father’s death, 1947.