John Stillman: Jumping from Helicopters

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Cover: 9781732736139 | Jumping from Helicopters | A Vietnam Memoir | John Stillman (u. a.)

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Beschreibung

In 1967, at age nineteen, John Stillman-refusing to wait for the draft-voluntarily enlisted in the Army to aid his fellow countrymen in one of the most opposed involvements in our nation's history: the Vietnam War. Quickly falling in love with the rush of being a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, he believed his service would honorably help the South Vietnamese protect their country from the ruthless communist North and their Southern allies. But once in the volatile jungles of Vietnam, the merciless hunting and killing of the enemy, constant threat of landmines and booby traps, ambushes that could easily backfire, and deaths of his comrades made Stillman question how any man-if he survived-could ever return to his life as he'd known it.
Written with John's daughter, Lori Stillman, Jumping from Helicopters is a vivid and moving memoir that unearths fifty years of repressed memories with stunning accuracy and raw details. Interwoven with the author's own journal entries and including thirty-five photographs, it is a story that will open your eyes to what these brave young men witnessed and endured, and why they returned facing a lifetime of often unspoken unrest, persistent nightmares, and forced normalcy, haunting even the strongest of soldiers.

Über den Autor

Born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis, John Stillman was a quiet boy yet found fun in teasing his younger sisters and brother. His love for the Rome plows in Vietnam led him to a career as an operating engineer, where he earned a living running the big equipment on job sites. Now retired, he busies himself helping out with nonprofit veterans organizations and tending to the almost one hundred acres he calls home in Missouri.

John has been happily married to his wife Rita for forty-eight years and is the father of four children, two daughters and two sons.

He still loves his road trips.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	242
ISBN-13:	9781732736139
ISBN-10:	1732736138
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Stillman, John Stillman, Lori Tbd
Hersteller:	Turtle Creek Publishing
Maße:	216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	John Stillman (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.12.2018
Gewicht:	0,347 kg

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