POPCORN ROAD TO PARIS... and Back

POPCORN ROAD TO PARIS...and Back is a collection of memories by Robert W. Thrasher, an Army Scout during WWII. The author's style is almost that of a comic entertainer. He pokes fun at Uncle Sam in "My First Job," saying he never got paid for any of the jobs he did until he became a soldier and received a dollar a day and room and board! He then became a scout. "...I soon got used to my job as a scout. I learned to concentrate really hard and be aware of everything all the time. I can tell you that it was a kid's job. An old man sure couldn't handle it. But before you knew it, the war was over and I was laid off. That damn Hitler again." Through the author's eyes you will laugh, and you will cry, but you will never forget these stories.

Robert Wyatt Thrasher served in WWII. Over the past twenty years, he has been writing down his "memories," as he prefers to call them, of his war experiences. Some of these stories have appeared in the Army Newspaper "Checkerboard - 99th Infantry." He has also written short stories about his childhood of growing up in Harrodsburg, Indiana. Robert, or commonly called by "Bob," is retired from the US Post Office. He resides with his wife, Bessie, on their farm on Popcorn Road, west of Harrodsburg, Indiana.