These separate novellas, with a few minor characters appearing in all three, are set in the life of their times1948, 1953, 1969involved in a national meat-packing strike, a Korea War POWs mysterious homecoming, and the student takeover of a university. The trilogy lays out the problems of criminal abortion, criminal impersonation, and social and personal separation, and it poses a trio of love dimensionsphysical, spiritual, and intellectual. Note the cinematic form.

Jack K. Campbell was a packinghouse worker in Chicago, a petty officer in the U.S.Navy, and is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education, Texas A&M. He was a guide and an industrial engineer at Armours meat packing, served aboard the USS MACON in the Atlantic Fleet, and VU-1O in Cuba. He taught history and the history and philosophy of Education in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, as well as in Texas. His major publications are THE CHILDRENS CRUSADER, the biography of Colonel Francis W. Parker, and GUANTANAMO REMEMBERED, a collection of short stories about sailors and airmen reminiscing at a reunion, mixing alcohol and recollections about their exploits during the Korean War. See GuantanamoRemembered.com