The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up

They were just crew-cut kids, gung-ho recruits in a macho John Wayne war that was killing their humanity. He was Kurt Strom, a big, good-looking southern boy who left the Detroit Tigers farm team to serve as a medic. In the blood-and-guts insanity of jungle warfare, he tended their wounds. In the comaraderie of of combat, he seduced them.