RINGS of MISFORTUNE

About the Book

Over 16,000,000 men served in the armed forces in WWII. Perhaps as many as 3%, or 480,000, had a homosexual orientation. Admittedly, several thousand were screened out before being inducted, and some later received Undesirable Discharges. 120,000 of these men saw combat action, and undoubtedly hundreds were killed, and thousands were wounded.

Jack Scott, by far the most outstanding seventeen-year-old in a small town in Arkansas, is forced to confront this problem both at home and in the military. This story is his, and to a degree, the stories of his family, his friends, and his comrades in combat.

The problem is handled sympathetically, if realistically.

About the Author

This is the first, and only novel of W. Lloyd Duncan, a graduate of Yale University, former US Naval Flight Surgeon, and soon to retire from the practice of general surgery in a rural town in Tennessee. An autobiography is in his plans. He resides with his wife and enjoys a professional association with his daughter and her husband, both practicing physicians. A son is a wholesale food broker. But, what he treasures as much as anything is the love of his two beautiful granddaughters.