The Adventures of Buddy Young

by Michael Young

Overview

Buddy and his family are living a wonderful life on a small ranch in New Mexico until Buddy's father takes ill and the family is forced to sell and move to Colorado. They settle in the mile high city of Denver so Buddy's father can be close to the military hospital. The family is forced into poverty when Buddy's father dies and Buddy faces life as a fatherless boy. He grieves for his father and rebels against his mother. He runs the streets and forms strong relationships with other boys. They share many adventures and grew up together through the great depression. Buddy finds himself in a leadership role amongst the boys in his neighborhood and draws many together to form a gang. The war breaks out in Europe and the Pacific and the boys get swept up in the patriotism. They head to the west coast to join the merchant Marines. Buddy finds that he is too young and lies about his age to get signed up. He finds a job on a Danish merchant ship and sails the pacific. After leaving ship on the East coast he rejoins his friends and they join the Army Air Force. He is stationed in Hawaii and then is transferred back to Denver to finish his tour of duty.
The story addresses many of the challenges that young boys and girls faced when growing up in that turbulent time of the Great Depression and War II.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011252839
Publisher:	Michael Young
Publication date:	03/26/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	168 KB

About the Author

Michael Thomas Young, author

Michael Thomas Young is an American story teller. He enjoys writing about the American West but has also written Political Satire and Biographical stories. He is currently working on his first Sci-Fi thriller.

Born in Denver Colorado in 1951, Young is a direct descendent of the pioneers that settled the Southwest. Story telling was a main source of entertainment that was passed on by his family and planted in him, the seed of desire to be a story teller From the time he was eight years old he would entertain his two sisters, Sherree and Toni with stories he would make up on the spot. The stories pleased his sisters so that soon it became a nightly ritual just before bed time.

By the time he was eleven Young had built a hiding place in the attic of his parents house where he spent many hours reading and writing stories. One summer night he was found out by his father who at first was upset that his son was using the attic but when he discovered some of the stories he had written he changed his mind and encourage his son to continue to write, but to do it in his room and not the attic.

Like many writers Young had found out at an early age that the environment where one writes can influence the writers work. Young found that he did better when he was in an environment where he was alone and not disturbed. He let his imagination run wild and day dream and then wrote about his dreams and thoughts.

At eighteen Young had finished high school and entered college but after his first semester he felt the need to get away from his home town and soon fell in with a friend who persuaded him that a life of adventure lay ahead of them and all they need do was to join the military and then the world would open up to them. This led to his entry into the US Air Force. The world did open up to him as he was sent to Vietnam during 1972 during the Easter Offensive by the NVA.

After his discharge from the military he lived in Wyoming and fell in love with the mid west. He worked with horses and held a job at a grain elevator delivering grain and hay to local ranches.



During his travels he lived in several states including Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and California. He sttled in California and continued his education and took work in communications and finally retail management. All the time he continued to keep story telling as part of his life and after he r...