AUTHOR’S NOTE

FEW MILITARY HISTORY accounts are more inspiring than those produced by the prisoner-of-war experience in Southeast Asia in the sixties and seventies. Men of faith and commitment to family and country displayed what it meant to endure debilitating hardships yet emerge with honor and dignity.

This is the story of one of those POWs, Thomas “Jerry” Curtis, a brave man yet full of grace, who began trusting God as a young boy and maintained trust even through 2,703 days of captivity in the prison system of Hanoi, Vietnam.

What Jerry learned in captivity about the Light of mankind has never been more relevant than it is today, for we live in times that are increasingly dark and challenging with powerful forces of both good and evil looming on the horizon. His story is a message of triumph over adversity, of courage and hope, commitment and endurance. Above all else, it is a testimony that even in the blackest night, Light remains in the world —it cannot be conquered, and it will not fail.