Hear the Bugles Calling

Sergeant Lionel Chooch Pinn was an American warrior, an Osage Indian whose career as an army sergeant met the high standards set by his fathers example as a World War I veteran. Reared in the crucible of the Great Depression and case-hardened in hand-to-hand combat against the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII, Pinn went on to fight as a foot soldier in Korea, Laos, and Vietnam. Pinn recounts these wars as only an infantry soldier could. His gritty account of fighting in distant corners of the world is a journey through Americas tumultuous last half of the 20th century. Sgt. Pinns memoir, exciting, horrifying, upsetting, is a testament to the uncompromising fighting spirit of U.S. soldiers.