John Donaldson is a native of Spring Creek, PA a very small town in the Allegheny Mt. foothills of NW Pennsylvania. He attended high school in Youngsville, PA a very small city, also in the Allegheny Mt. foothills. And he graduated from Thiel College in the small city of Greenville which is also in Pennsylvania but not in the Allegheny Mt. foothills. This book is a memoir of his youth in Spring Creek PA, his life in the military during the Korean War and his early working life.