
On the night of November 9, 1967, Sijan was ejected from his crippled fighter-bomber over the steep mountains of Laos. Although critically injured and virtually without supplies, he evaded capture in savage terrain for six weeks. Finally caught and placed in a holding camp, he...

On the night of November 9, 1967, Sijan was ejected from his crippled fighter-bomber over the steep mountains of Laos. Although critically injured and virtually without supplies, he evaded capture in savage terrain for six weeks. Finally caught and placed in a holding camp, he...



Sijan was always a special kind of person--but it took Vietnam to show how special he was--in an epic of jungle survival and prison-camp defiance. He resisted his interrogators to the end, and he died two weeks later in Hanoi. His courage was an inspiration to other prisoners...
