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Jon Harris
Workshop: Local Voices of Roanoke Valley
Time: 3:45 - 4:30pm
Place: Auditorium |
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http://www.xulonpress.com/book_detail.php?id=2795
Wings of the Morning: What would you do if you found yourself floating down in a parachute over enemy territory or if you knew that the airplane you were in could not make it over the ridgeline ahead of you and was certain to crash? How would you handle an aircraft just seconds from plunging into the ocean at nearly the speed of sound that was not responding to your control? These are just a few of the compelling, heart-stopping, and all too true experiences faced by Jon Harris, the first pilot of the Vietnam War to be shot down over North Vietnam and subsequently recovered during his years as a Navy jet pilot. Wings of the Morning is an anthology of aviation adventures written not just to entertain (though it does that), but also to inform and to inspire the reader through its dramatic narratives, spiritual applications, and faith-enhancing conclusions.
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Jon R. Harris is a 1963 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Following flight training, he was among the first naval aviators in the Vietnam War, becoming the first pilot of the war to be shot down over North Vietnam and subsequently recovered. After a near-fatal plane crash at the 10,000-foot level of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1971, he began the process of leaving his naval career.
With master’s degrees from The George Washington University and from Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harris has been an educator (having taught at the Naval Academy, at Staunton Military Academy, and for eight plus years at Toccoa Falls College in Toccoa Georgia, where he helped to initiate the School of Christian Counseling).
After his seminary training and being ordained, Rev. Harris has been the pastor of two churches and has been on the pastoral staff of two additional ones. In 1981 he began a pastoral counseling ministry, which he has carried through to the present.
At the request of an acquaintance from TFC in the summer of 2004, Harris began to write down some of the more interesting and dramatic aspects of his carrier-based naval aviation career…commencing with his shootdown and ending with the crash in the mountains, which killed the pilot and severely injured him. Those accounts plus several other combat-related and peacetime adventures ultimately became the manuscript for his book, Wings of the Morning, self-published in May 2006 through Xulon Press. |
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Mason Adams
Leonard Adkins
Nancy Wright Beasley
Ellen Byerrum
Susann Cokal
HelenKay Dimon
A. Roger Ekrich
Fred First
Jon Harris
Gary Jackson
Mary McManaway
James W. Morrison
Becky Mushko
Colleen Redman
Sally Roseveare
Michael Shoulders
Matthew Warner
Jack Zell
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