The strength to endure
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Paul Kari with John Gladden
Contributors: Gladden, John, 1966- author
Publisher: Orange Frazer Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Wilmington, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781939710161
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; North Vietnamese Prisoners and prisons; American Personal narratives; Prisoners of war; Biography; United States. Air Force; United States
Description: "Paul Kari was shot down in 1965 as a 29-year-old captain in the Air Force. He was captured by the Viet Cong and spent almost 8 years as a prisoner of war. The memoir recounts the triumphs and tragedies he endured as a first a farmer, then a fighter pilot, a husband and father. He emerged from prison as a Major, legally blind, due to maltreatment and malnutrition but with unfailing integrity and a still uncommon devotion to duty and country. It's a story written with clarity and minimum emotion, as he overcomes every obstacle with positivity, planning, hard work and commitment. Great insight into the minds of fighter pilots, the hearts of POWs, and the facts of the Vietnam War"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: My longest day; title: Early farm life; title: The bombing run; title: Caught in a blizzard; title: Captured; title: The big move to Spencer; title: Eating snake; title: High school years; title: Hanoi prison; title: The Ohio State University; title: The cruelty of the briar patch; title: First flight; title: The Hanoi march; title: Primary and basic pilot training; title: International war crimes tribunal; title: Gunnery training; title: A Christmas program; title: Sitting nuclear alert; title: Coming home; title: A hurry-up wedding; title: Meeting family; title: TDY to Ubon, Thailand; title: The divorce; title: My cattle venture; title: The farm at Spencer; title: High plains farming; title: Settling in southwest Ohio; title: The bombshell; title: Reflections.