From Vietnam to Operation Welcome Home

ISBN-10: 195875059X
ISBN-13: 978-1958750599
AUTHOR: Mike Jackson, Karen Jackson
PAGES: 230
FORMAT: Soft Cover

When Mike Jackson rose above the jungles of Vietnam one last time, it was aboard a charter flight home. With 210 missions piloting an O-2A as a forward air controller directing airstrikes for ground troops in trouble behind him, his joy turned to anger as he was “welcomed” with shrill insults from anti-war protesters at San Francisco International. That angry memory persisted throughout his Air Force career and beyond until he published Naked in Da Nang with Tara Dixon Engel in 2004. Buoyed by its warm reception, the authors began to think maybe it wasn’t too late for a real
“Welcome home!”