Bernard K Smith

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.