It’s hard to believe it’s been 37 years since, as a POW in North Vietnam, I was moved from a fairly “easy” satellite POW camp to one of the cavernous cell bays of the medieval-like Hoa Lo prison in downtown Hanoi with 26 other “bad attitudes.”
“Because you have bad attitude you will go to a place more harsh,” the “V” snarled. ("V" was our generic slang term for the Communist interrogators.)
There, at what became known as the Hanoi Hilton, in cell bay No. 7, I first met Lt. Comdr. John McCain.
- by Jerry Coffee, Midweek, July 9, 2008
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