Jumping from Helicopters: A Vietnam Memoir

Jumping from Helicopters: A Vietnam Memoir

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 the Vietnam…

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