JOSEPH MAES WILL NEVER FORGET the day he jumped into a helicopter on his first day in Vietnam.
It was a supply drop. But before long, Maes, sitting in the back of the chopper, could hear his fellow soldiers yelling, “HOT LZ!” before he was unexpectedly dropped off into what he describes as a hot zone, surrounded by bomb craters, explosions and dead bodies.
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