Twenty six stories from the colorful life of Robert W. Johnson, beginning in the great depression, going through the wars of the fifties and sixties and into his golden years in the 1990's. Follow this boxer, Marine Captain, English teacher, cop, black belt in karate, writer, photographer, and newspaper boy throughout his hilarious and often terrifying adventures. Join him in the boxing ring, on the football field, in the frozen no-man lands of Korea, in the jungles of Vietnam and on paper routes into the dark hills of Tennessee. Go inside his mind at eight years old in a carnival boxing ring where he helped his father survive six rounds with a heavyweight boxer.