Mission of Honor

A Moral Compass for a Moral Dilemma

De: Jim Crigler

Narrado por: Shawn Compton

Most of us never get to test ourselves in combat.

As a UH-1 Helicopter pilot flying in the jungle highlands of South Vietnam, Warrant Officer Jim Crigler and the men he flew with were tested daily. Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was challenging for most young men of that era. Throw in drugs, free love, draft notices, the Vietnam War, and a country deeply divided, and you have one of the most important books of this genre.

This true story is a raw, bold, introspective autobiography where the author openly wrestles with his personal moral dilemma to find meaning and purpose in his life. He calls it his "Mission of Honor."

©2017 Panoma Press (P)2019 Tantor

It is a must read

Thank you Jim for writing your memoir. What an incredible story that is extremely thought provoking regarding politics, war, innocent victims, love, relationships, youth, death, friendship, wise words, timing, luck, brotherhood, and much, much more. It is a read that makes me want to start the book all over again. From your Vancouver Island retreat pal😉-G

This is incredibly relevant if you lived through it...

I saw this author on a PBS documentary standing at the headwaters of the Mississippi at Itaska Park.
He was beginning his canoe trek down river to the gulf.
It caught my eye because I grew up in Park Rapids only miles from that headwaters and have many family pictures of visiting cousins over the years all taken at that very iconic location where everyone walks on the rocks to cross the river and gets their picture taken.
Mr. Crigler graduated in 1968 and I graduated from Park Rapids HS in 1970.
Every afternoon in Social Problems, Mr. Dyre would begin our class with the number of killed in action update on the board.
There was a never ending discussion of the war and how it was tearing the fabric of our society. Not how Social Problems would be taught in 2020 but good for the time...
It was a true reminder that if we didn’t go to college, we would likely go to Viet Nam...
Harsh, but true for the class of ‘70
Almost everything Crigler talks about is so applicable and relevant to my experience as well.
His first hand account of enlisting, training and combat will surely relate to anyone who came through that era...
I would think this story told in short easy listen chapters on Audible, will be more appealing to males rather than females since it is so relevant to the draft and war...
I was in the first lottery and my number was 7 so there was a lot of craziness at that time.
I could pretty much relate personally to everything in Crigler’s life!
Great Job Sir! You lived it and survived...

Good book

Scathingly genuine & honest accounts & reflections. Jim wrote a fine book that tells a great story honoring Tom Shaw & all that served. Welcome Home Jim!

Vivid

This book draws you in with descriptions so well you can almost smell the exhaust and feel the heat.

the best book

Great story line about a helicopter polit. It tells about his life from high-school to the end.

Incredible accounting of the Vietnam war 1972

Wonderful personal account of the transition of a boy, soldier, father in life learning from experiences encountered and choosing to have a life of purpose and service. I highly recommend it to anyone. Jeff Wells

A New Perspective

Loved a new approach to telling the Viet Nam story…..everyone makes mistakes and starting the story with two unbelievable mistakes, weaving them throughout the story and coming to terms with the consequences and acceptance of our mistakes makes for interesting reading. Thank you for sharing your story.

Warrant Officers

The book is sensitively and honestly written. Although the missions in 1972 were not as intense as before the war was winding down, they were non the less dangerous. But, this book is also about the role of Warrant Officers and their roles flying helicopters. I was one of the last Warrants in the Air Force when it its infinite lack. of wisdom, the warrant officer program was discontinued in the Air Force. This was probably a political decision. Now that drones have become an integral form of warfare, the Air Force has reinstated the warrant officer program to fly drones because the ‘real officers’ only want to fly fixed wing air craft. Soon, military strategists will discover that drone warfare. . Is the air war of the future.

Met Jim in person

My Challenge Coin handed to me by Jim. Means so very much to me. Thank you Jim. #WFEvolution18

very good

I listened to this book because my uncle David (Davey) Stamper was mentioned. I thought it was well written a lot of the Era of the Vietnam War I could not remember.as I was 6 in 1972 when he was killed. I had thought I was I was 10 until a friend told me the War was over before 1976. I really enjoyed the book and listened to it in one session.