Harold M. Dunn was a Depression baby, born in rural New York in 1930. When he was twelve his father died; when he was 13 he ran away from home for the first time. At 16 he quit school (he had just finished the ninth grade), worked his way to Louisiana, where he joined a road gang. A month after his 17th birthday, Dunn lied about his age, signed up for the peacetime Army. He was sent to Korea when war broke out, and during the winter of 1950 was wounded, left behind by retreating U.S. forces, and captured. In...
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