More about "The Misadventures of Cpl Sachs"

Well, it's not only completed, but the little 116 page book is now set up at lulu.com for sale as a paperback for $9.95 and on the ebook readers--Kindle, Nook, and at Lulu for only $4.00. It's amazing that I could piece together so much about the mere 21 months I spent in the US Army back in the 1950's at the end of the Korean War. I wasn't much of a student at Indiana University and certainly no soldier though the army provided me with an assortment of uniforms. I realized as I completed this memoir that the army was the only time I ever had a "real" 9-5 style job. As I report in it, I had zero sex life before the army but was "normalized" by the time I was discharged. My last official duty was as a  guard on a train taking prisoners to Bremerhaven for transport to Leavenworth federal prison. The worst offender was being sent to the slammer for fornication, or maybe it was adultery. He'd seduced or been seduced by a number of officers' wives while working as a porter at a dependent hotel. I thought fornication was SOP,. standard operating practice in the army, but the Universal Code of Military Justice does in fact have adultery among its list of actionable offenses. General Petraeus please note. My own sexual exploits,such as they might have been, are not in the memoir, for, as I remind readers, Mother said it was never proper to kiss and tell. However, the love story is obliquely depicted in my MA thesis, "The Golden Grape," which is in the Indiana University library. "Queer Company" is the novel I wrote about the experimental training unit I was assigned to at Camp Breckinridge.A copy of that is in the US Army historical archives, but it's available as an ebook and paperback. I can't remember if I sent a copy of "The Golden Grape" to the archive or not. My own archive is in the warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky.The book was revised as "A Woman for Sam." It's still in manuscript form.
I suppose "The Misadventures" is my own equivalent of "Beloxi Blues" which was Neil Simon's military novel. My memoir is not a novel, of course. It's a remembrance of my own "Grand tour" of Europe in 1 1/2 day weekends. It's written for my daughters, but anyone who might find it interesting can obtain it. At times it is humorous.The identities of my pals in uniform have been kept confidential. They know who they are.