Brothers in Arms [Paperback] Knutson, Gerald V.

Brothers in armsThis book is a rather wide array of experience, 2 autobiographies. The fiction will show itself, the experience can be believed or not. It doesn’t make any difference to me. I lived it, although you can doubt if you like I wish it happened to someone else!The autobiographies are the truth. Both men went through too much bull shit for either story to be a lie. I met Jack Fair about 30 years ago. I had bought a 100-year-old homestead in the northern part of Los Angeles County. At the time my only neighbor was the Tajon Ranch, they had 270,000 acres and surrounded me on all sides. Lois and I had been there about 10 years when someone built a little store two miles east of us. The store had a public phone that we had to go to make a phone call. There was a 5-mile dead zone with no phone service. Bell telephone lines ended three miles east. The store had the only public phone. That’s how I met Jack Zair, I went into the store for something and Jack was laying behind the counter trying to make friends with the owner’s dog. We started talking and became friends we told each other about our past in a guarded unsure way. He said he was writing his autobiography but was unsure what to do with it. Getting something published in those days was pretty difficult. In the end he finished it, and gave it to me before Lois and I left California. I’ve had it for over twenty years. Now it will see the light of day, hopefully.I met Joe Joy 10 years ago he was the neighbor of a friend, and we met over their fence. Joe was an old Arizona cowboy who got drafted into the army and was sent to the south pacific. He was involved in several campaigns and was wounded several times. He told me there were a lot of guys named Joe in his platoon, and since his last name was a 3-letter word and easy to remember when the C.O. (Commanding Officer) seemed to always call Joy. At any rate these two guys went through hell this whole time, as have millions of other servicemen. At least these two men will have their fifteen minutes of immortality.

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