Save Them For The Junkman

Save Them For The Junkman Is A Workinspired By Actual Events Affecting And Shaping The Author'S LifeFictionalized And Embellished For Effect.Growing Up My Brother And Iworked For (The Junkman) An Uncle Who Owned A Scrap Iron And Wrecking Yard Awonderful Man Who Often Entertained Us With War Stories Which I Foundenthralling But Suspected He Embroidered With Each Telling.¿ To My Eternal Regret Only After His DeathDid I Discover He Was Indeed A Great Hero And A Greater Man.¿ Among His Affects Was A Moth-Eaten Uniformfestooned With Cobwebs And Medals.¿ He'Dmade Every Combat Jump In W.W. Ii And One In KoreaWhere He'D Been Captured And Held Prisoner In The Freezing Hell Of Manchuriafor Almost Two Years.¿ UnattendedStarved His Wounded Arm Had Frozen Rotted Off Wasting His Once Strong Bodyto That Of Mere Skeleton.¿ It Is Withgrateful Heart And Fearsome Pride That I Use My Own Experience Andimagination Coupled With His Homeric Tails And Heroic Deeds As An Inspirationfor This Humbly Wrought But Awesome Narrative And By Doing So Perhaps Save Them For The Junkman.