http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hanoihilton/ en-us Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:06:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114769/posts ~snip~ Where the accounts differ most starkly is in the period of Mr McCain’s long incarceration as a PoW – first at the prison known as the Hanoi Hilton, then at The Plantation. Tran Trong Duyet, the former prison director who now surrounds himself with caged birds in a house in Hai Phong, first met Mr McCain a year after he had been shot down. He recalls a defiant rule-breaker, the patriotic son of an admiral and a fervent believer in the war. What he does not recall, however, is a victim of torture or violence. “I never tortured or... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114769/posts#comment Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:06:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105998/posts Warner Brothers has delayed the re-release of a film about American prisoners of war in Vietnam in case it influences the outcome of the US presidential election. The studio has temporarily blocked the release of the DVD version of the 1987 film Hanoi Hilton, which will feature an interview with John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, about his imprisonment in Hoa Lo prison during the war. The film, which gave a favourable portrayal of US prisoners, will now be released on November 11 - a week after the election. Warner Brothers's decision is likely to raise suggestions that it did... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105998/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105674/posts If Sen. John McCain has more to say publicly about his time in a North Vietnamese prison before next month's election, it will not be with help from Warner Brothers. The studio moved quietly over the last few weeks to block any promotional showing of an interview — tied to the release of the first DVD version of the 1987 film Hanoi Hilton — in which McCain spoke of his imprisonment in the Hoa Lo prison during the Vietnam War. The studio is concerned that any pre-election showing might embroil the project in electoral politics. "It's just us trying to... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105674/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:36:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088856/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbfAqJ4hRM I just read General Robbie Risner's book "The Passing of the Night - My Seven Years as a Prisoner or the North Vietnamese." I have also read "When Hell Was In Session" by Admiral Jeremiah Denton. These men were tortured to a point that Americans cannot even comprehend. Risner had his arms literally ripped from their sockets, and when he heard the inhuman high pitched screams, he didn't even realize at the time that they were his. The pain was that bad. McCain went through the same torture of being hung on a meat hook with his arms pinned... CBS and YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088856/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:01:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067861/posts I should never be shocked by the bad manners on the left but this stunt just might haunt them more than Wellstone's funeral. There is a key rattling stunt/taunt growing in popularity amongst the Democrats. Some may try to play it off as mocking him for having so many houses but the truth is that the jingling keys are to imitate the prison guards at the Hanoi Hilton. Whatever they're thinking they better stop it soon because even apolitical types will side with McCain out of sympathy if for no other reason. I learned the true meaning of this key... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067861/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:10:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013358/posts Like John McCain, Col. George E. "Bud" Day spent over 5 yrs in Vietnamese POW camps. Day and John McCain were cell-mates for about 2 and a half years. Day is a legendary military hero with more medals and ribbons than anyone since General Douglas MacArthur. FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013358/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 00:28:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008999/posts It came to me while I was having dinner with Doris Day. No, not that Doris Day. The Doris Day who is married to Col. Bud Day, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, fighter pilot, Vietnam POW and roommate of John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton. As we ate near the Days' home in Florida recently, I heard things about Sen. McCain that were deeply moving and politically troubling. Moving because they told me things about him the American people need to know. And troubling because it is clear that Mr. McCain is one of the most private individuals to run... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008999/posts#comment Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923709/posts A former Navy captain and prisoner of war in Vietnam was one of three who died Friday when a small two-engine plane crashed in California's Central Valley. Cole Black of Escondido was aboard the twin-engine plane that crashed in an orange grove in a rural area near Delano, his wife, Karen Black, told The Associated Press. Black, a Navy pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam and was jailed in a prison nicknamed "Hanoi Hilton" for nearly seven years, was heading home after speaking to students in Oregon about his experience as a POW. In 1993 article, Black told... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923709/posts#comment Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:15:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883325/posts Veteran actress and feminist Jane Fonda has been slammed for not paying her female employees working in the actress' radio network Green Stone Media. The twice Oscar winner and the radio network's co-founder Gloria Steinem have been accused of "putting their own reputations above their female employees' finances." According to the New York Post, Fonda and Steinem are 'refusing to pay severance, and the founders won't file for bankruptcy protection because it would publicly embarrass Jane and Gloria.' However, the 'Klute' star's spokesperson has denied the reports and said that the accusations are unfounded. "This is pure speculation. There is... Yahoo! Movies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883325/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:52:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736862/posts Clarence Lee of Shallowater, a veteran with four tours in Vietnam to his credit, completed 15 years in the Marine Corps the hard way. "The last tour was 14 months long, because that's when I got captured," he said. Lee can stand with a crutch, and moves about with a wheelchair or motorized scooter because of permanent injuries inflicted when he was a prisoner of war. He attributes his survival of nine months of torture to help from God. Lee, now in his 60s, was a helicopter pilot during the war and received five Purple Heart medals while fighting the... Lubbock Avalanche-Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736862/posts#comment Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:25:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639017/posts JOHN McCAIN IS, without a doubt, heroic.Disagree with his politics, mistrust his shifting political alliances, but no one who's benefited from the tortured sacrifices he made at the Hanoi Hilton should question his integrity. How can we, whole in body and strangers to the hell he experienced, challenge this patriot? To do so indicates a fundamental inhumanity.That aptly describes the young woman who stood up last week and ridiculed the senator from Arizona. Jean Sara Rohe, a graduating senior at the New School in New York, introduced McCain before he delivered his commencement address.Ms. Rohe took the opportunity to attack... Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639017/posts#comment Fri, 26 May 2006 22:23:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629512/posts 5/9/2006 - DAYTON, Ohio (AFPN) -- Visitors can get a rare glimpse into the lives of prisoners of war through a dramatic new exhibit at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The exhibit, titled "Return with Honor: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia," located in the museum's Modern Flight Gallery, is now open to the public. Visitors enter the exhibit next to a reproduced doorway to the "Hanoi Hilton," the name given by Americans to Hoa Lo Prison. Photographs, videos, dioramas and artifacts tell the story of prisoner torture, political exploitation, filthy living conditions and endless... Air Force Links http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629512/posts#comment Wed, 10 May 2006 00:29:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1392233/posts Jane Fonda talks about how she is 'riveted' by faith and why feminism is what Jesus taughtFrom her longtime political activism to her Oscar-winning acting, Jane Fonda has never done anything halfheartedly, and she brings this characteristic intensity to her faith. When she talks about "feeling the presence of the Almighty," her view of Jesus, and the way she prays, her voice wells from deep within her chest. You may know this voice from her films (among dozens of others: Barbarella, Klute, On Golden Pond, and currently in theaters, Monster-in-Law), or from her aerobics videos ("feel the burn!"), or from... Beliefnet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1392233/posts#comment Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:53:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379453/posts With the publication of Jane Fonda’s autobiography, the public in general and veterans in particular have once again been insulted by her contentless “apology” for a single episode in her multi-faceted junket to Hanoi in July 1972. Fonda’s charade on “60 Minutes” the other night was simply a robotic reprise of what she has been repeating as a mantra for years in words carefully crafted by her spin doctors. In our 2002“Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, Erika Holzer and I wrote the following: "[After the Vietnam War ended], Fonda went on with her life – garnering more... HENRY MARK HOLZER.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379453/posts#comment Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:00:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1226784/posts ... In 1978, the Commandant of the USAF Survival School, a colonel, was a former POW in Ho Lo Prison -- the Hanoi Hilton. Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane treatment' he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant's feet, accidentally pulling the man's shoe off -- which sent that officer berserk. ... "From 1983-85, Col. Larry Carrigan was 347FW/DO (F-4Es).... Snopes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1226784/posts#comment Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:13:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209124/posts Highlights of the VVAW FBI files and John Kerry Section 7 (October 1971) 1. “On September 30, 1971, Robert Malone, Chief of Police, University of Nevada, advised Kerry’s speech at the University was sponsored by the Associated Students of the University of Nevada, and that he was paid $1,200.00, including expenses for his appearance.” Kerry is paid for VVAW speeches, pg 25 2. VVAW pickets restaurant because owner refuses to serve long haired, barefoot and dirty veterans in his place of business. It is also noted that the organization encourages the use of narcotics. VVAW pickets restaurant, pg 28-29 3.... FBI Files on Vietnam Veterans Against the War and John Kerry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209124/posts#comment Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:00:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208650/posts I purchased the Movie, "THE HANOI HILTON" at WallMart a few weeks ago because it was on sale for $5.99. I recall seeing the movie on television many years ago. I had a chance to watch the movie yesterday and now it the movie, more than ever is relvant to the anti-war activies of John Kerry during the Vietnam war and how the POW's were tortured many times due to the actions of John Kerry, Jane Fonda and their friends in the media. If you have an opportunity I recommend highly that you see this movie and let others get... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208650/posts#comment Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:30:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203448/posts John Kerry’s Fellow TravellersA 5-part series exposing John Kerry’s Communist connections.Part 2: Forging a Paper Hero: The Mystery of Kerry’s MedalsBy Fedora *NOTE: The term “fellow traveller” as used in this article series refers to someone who is not a member of the Communist Party (CP) but regularly engages in actions which advance the Party’s program. Some apparent fellow travellers may actually be “concealed party members”: members of the CP who conceal their membership. Which of these classifications is applicable to the Kerrys is a question this series leaves unresolved. This series does not argue for any direct evidence of... Original FReeper research http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203448/posts#comment Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:39:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203164/posts As John Kerry gets ready to speak to the American Legion on Sept. 1, during the GOP Convention, it is worth recalling some of his earlier comments on that esteemed organization: We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the "greater glory of the United States." We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars-in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such... Kerry Spot/National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203164/posts#comment Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202890/posts Senator Also May Have Set Up Meetings Between Chinese Firms, U.S. Officials (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released recently declassified documents showing that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry accepted laundered contributions for his 1996 re-election campaign from the Communist Chinese government and that, in exchange, he may have arranged meetings between Chinese aerospace executives and U.S. government officials. Obtained from the FBI through Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act requests, the documents are related to the FBI’s “Chinagate” investigation into the Clinton campaign’s acceptance of contributions from Communist... Judicial Watch Website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202890/posts#comment Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:13:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202883/posts FBI files indicate that VVAW leader Al Hubbard reported to the VVAW Executive Committee meeting upon returning from Paris the following, “Hubbard indicated that VVAW as an organization had received commitments of support from Leftists throughout the world. He indicated that following the conference he had private discussions with individuals from Laos and Cambodia, the primary topic discussed were tactics in the United States anti-war movement. In his opinion these discussions turned out to be the most important part of the conference for him. He said that during these talks he was able to confirm the fact that a seven... FBI Files on Vietnam Veterans Against the War and John Kerry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202883/posts#comment Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202872/posts Recently I have read that John Kerry has told the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that he was not referring to them in his senate speech in 1971, but to all the other Vietnam War veterans. Well, we should apply the same standard to this that Kerry and his news pals have used, that is; That Kerry did not serve in their tent, unit, team, foxhole, aircraft, patrol unit, or squad so therefore he cannot know what these men were doing or not doing. Therefore, because by his own admission that by these standards the SBVT could not have known... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202872/posts#comment Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:27:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1202584/posts One more brick in the Kerry wall...... http://teamhouse.tni.net/Misc/Kerry/ChungKerry.htm SF-List Team House http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1202584/posts#comment Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:14:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199397/posts Nov. 3, 2004: Vietnam vets - finally, you heroes have come home You were spit on. You were called war criminals. You were called baby killers. You served your country and came home to abuse and to be shunned by your countrymen. Many never came home at all. There were lost limbs, broken lives, broken families, alcoholism, drugs, homelessness, despair, and even suicide. You could not understand why you were so hated. There was no parade welcoming you home. There was nobody to offer you their seat on a full airplane. There was no one wanting to shake your hand... Doug from Upland http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199397/posts#comment Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:51:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202231/posts To: stockpirate I am not sure this is the proper place to put this...but here goes... To All The Vets of Viet Nam, I was born in 1955, a baby boomer...into an alcoholic and abusive family. I was 14 years old when Woodstock rocked this nation. I remember standing in front of a 12" black and white set watching it unfold on the 6 o'clock news. I also remember my father using the term..".long haired hippie pukes" and being totally disgusted with the whole mess. Being 14 with a father who like to use his fists..I naturally rejected anything he... Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202231/posts#comment Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:44:09 GMT