Dear Mom Im Alive

This is a story of one young man's right of passage. One out of every three American helicopter pilots never returned from the bloody chaos of Vietnam. Randy Mains beat the odds. For a full year he endured gross incompetence in the chain of command, top-secret excursions into neutral Laos, routine recover missions that would turn suddenly, unexpectedly into life-threatening nightmares one-thousand hours spent flying into the perilous heart of a terifying jungle inferno. Mains learned the meaning of courage and camaraderie...and experienced the gut-wrenching pain of personal loss. Most importantly he survived to tell his own unforgettable story of the real war Mom never knew about.