As a Viet Nam veteran, Juris was an anomaly in publishing. He had learned to keep that part of his history quiet, and many of his publishing contemporaries didn’t know he was a vet until “Red Flags” came out. Juris was fascinated by the fact that although 2.7 million Americans had served in Viet Nam, in a recent census, something like 13 million now claimed to be Viet Nam vets. “War was very much glamorized up until Viet Nam, which left the public wondering how to see veterans. For a long time the Viet Nam vet was the psycho walk-on character in TV dramas. Then ever so slowly I noticed the TV private eyes became Viet Nam vets and the image shifted. The vet became chic.”