[1] He and his wife Louise Smizer[2] left Saigon for Europe in 1969, driving a VW Camper from India overland to Lapland in Sweden where, for a short time, he became a Lumberjack.

On April 6, 1970, Stone and his colleague Sean Flynn were captured by the People's Army of Vietnam in the Kampong Cham province after leaving Phnom Penh on rented Honda motorbikes looking to find the front lines of fighting in Cambodia.

However, in 2003, the Pentagon's Central Identification Lab in Hawaii confirmed by DNA testing that the remains found by Tim Page were actually of Clyde McKay, a boat hijacker, and Larry Humphrey, an army deserter; both were a part of the SS Columbia Eagle incident.

A 1991 film, Danger on the Edge of Town, recounted Tim Page's "search to discover the fate of his friends Sean Flynn and Dana Stone".

[6] He later served as a medic in the Vermont National Guard and was killed by friendly fire on March 29, 2006, when the 52-year-old sergeant was on his third tour in the war in Afghanistan.