Michael Stanis
Michael Stanis was born in 1943, in Saint Louis, Missouri. Son of a professional Jazz pianist, he studied music and photography during his years at Normandy High School, and later studied concert guitar at the Austrian State Academy for Music and Performing Arts. Between high school and music school he had a series of experiences, outlined in this memoir, during the decade 1961-1971. During 2018, He put pen to paper, and obtained permission from the Defense Department to tell this tale.