“I saw the famous image of people pushing their way up a ladder, trying to board a Huey perched on the roof of a Saigon building. Decades later, I would begin my own military service by learning to fly those same Huey helicopters, and much of my training — and the training of other pilots I’d fly with — would come from Vietnam War Veterans,” she wrote. “Little did I know it then, but the tactical flying skills these helicopter pilots had learned in Vietnam would one day save my own life.
In new book, Duckworth says childhood travails fueled her patriotism, and in an interview doesn’t rule out a future run for president
