The Bumfoot Wonderings

<p>Blood-Mound Park's finest pitcher Bronson '<em>Bumfoot</em>' McBee seventeen is charged with First-Degree Murder. However given the circumstance of his crime and him being a juvenile he's given a plea bargain: Twenty-five to life or to serve in Vietnam. Opting for the latter he's torn away from a world of promise--to don the steel pot olive-drabs and jungle boots as an infantryman assigned to Alpha Company of the 101<sup>st</sup> Airborne Division.</p><p>Backed by his Boonie brothers he'll have to take the arduous hump through the treacherous trails and mountains of Binh Thuan Province and other <em>'hairy'</em> regions of South Vietnam. There everything he holds dear--from the letters of his love to the Oglala Lakota lore of his mother--serve as his pillars of hope.</p><p>Nonetheless the obscenities of the war and the stacking losses of life start to wither the psyche--breaking him down while conversely inuring him to the idea that plea deal or not his chance at survival is as slim as it was to those who <em>gave all</em>. Now left to teeter on the flimsy line of fate he realizes his path to redemption initially taken up as a bargain starts to look no different than a certain death sentence.</p><p></p><p>.</p><p></p><p></p>