Washington in the 50's

Then - An Oral Memoir of a Writer's Life

Drafted during the Korean War into a regimental combat team, his writing experience gets him miraculously transferred to the Pentagon as Washington Correspondent for Armed Forces Press Service where his byline goes all over the world and he meets General George Marshall and many other top military figures as he reports on the Korean War. He has the run of the Pentagon and shares office space with a full chicken colonel in the Marines. He is married after basic training and his wife Sunny gives up a year of college to join him in Washington.. She works in the mall of the Pentagon for a Washington Department store which has an outlet there.