Red Hats

About the Book

This is a story about a young man, who spent his high school summer vacation working on the Mt. Hood National Forest in 1945.

He doesn't want to be drafted into an Army-slated to invade Japan, and if he is --- he doesn't want to do it, without first tasting some of the sweet mysteries of life and love. In the meantime, he finds dangers, real and imagined: in fighting forest fires, in trying to understand the opposite sex, and coping with the antics of his fellow crew members --- the REDHATs.

About the Author

In the summer of 1945, the author worked on the Mt. Hood National Forest¡¯s suppression crew. Since then, he worked eleven years as a policeman for Portland, and then a trial attorney.