Rory awoke in an Army hospital and learned that he had left part of his leg in Korea. Resolute that he would walk again, his spirits were significantly uplifted by the appearance of a young, very attractive girl bearing a beautiful bouquet of flowers: "Happy Birthday, Lieutenant." And that was how the romance started. She was 17, not 19 as she claimed, and her father was a colonel and she had a very jealous quarterback hanger-on who wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. But they hung in there and survived some very nasty attacks And they proved the power of love.