Falling in love was the last thing Army pilot Carl Prosser expected to do while stationed in Korea. But he meets a young man named Tommy who's touring with the USO and does just that. Their relationship deepens through an exchange of letters.<br><br>When the USO troupe returns to the front, Prosser devises an elaborate plan to see his lover one last time before the entertainers return to the states. At the last minute, though, there's a change of plans when the enemy hits the USO troupe and Prosser fears Tommy is gone forever.

For the Boys

My eyes filled with tears as I reached the end of the letter, where he had signed his initials instead of his name to get past the censors: two T’s twined together below the words, I miss you…I didn’t want it to end. So I reread it once, twice, three times before Bert came into the tent and told me the mess was open for dinner. I folded the letter up carefully, tucked it back into the envelope, and laid it beneath my pillow for safekeeping. 


The next day I was skipped over during mail call and I reread his letter again. Then I got two letters at once and I tried to read them both at the same time, setting them out side by side on my pillow, reading one line from one sheet of paper and then continuing onto the other as if it were part of the same letter”


Chapter 7