Volunteering as a civilian relief worker during the Vietnam War, he was exposed to Agent Orange, which may have caused his illness. A well disguised intellectual deeply read in history, Jordan devoted much of his life to helping the sick, raising money for research and relief in the war on cancer. With his wife, Dorothy, a former oncology nurse, he founded Camp Sunshine near Atlanta for kids with cancer and wrote a moving memoir of his own 20-year battle with four different types of the disease, entitled “No Such Thing as a Bad Day.”
