The author ejects from his burning Navy jet onto a karst ridge near Hanoi, and what follows is one of the most implausible and heroic rescues of the air-war.
The events immediately following carry him to a secret base in Laos and then to a makeshift hospital in Saigon.
The larger story, however, is of a man's complex relationship with Vietnam.
It begins in Saigon, where he completes high school and comes to love the Vietnamese people.
When he departs for college, he believes he's done.
Ok-3 Publishing Return to saigon: from high school in saigon to his return there as a wounded naval aviator, vietnam shaped his life/larry duthie
