/dev/null Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Never before seen pics of McCain's cell at the Hanoi Hilton: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whi...in-vietnam.html Looks like it's about the size of a million dollar townhouse in Manhatten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetbaboo Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 "They Told Me I'd Never Go Home" I really didn't know what to think, because I had been having these other interrogations in which I had refused to co-operate. It was not hard because they were not torturing me at this time. They just told me I'd never go home and I was going to be tried as a war criminal. That was their constant theme for many months. Suddenly "The Cat" said to me, "Do you want to go home?" I was astonished, and I tell you frankly that I said that I would have to think about it. I went back to my room, and I thought about it for a long time. At this time I did not have communication with the camp senior ranking officer, so I could get no advice. I was worried whether I could stay alive or not, because I was in rather bad condition. I had been hit with a severe case of dysentery, which kept on for about a year and a half. I was losing weight again. But I knew that the Code of Conduct says, "You will not accept parole or amnesty," and that "you will not accept special favors." For somebody to go home earlier is a special favor. There's no other way you can cut it. I went back to him three nights later. He asked again, "Do you want to go home?" I told him "No." He wanted to know why, and I told him the reason. I said that Alvarez [first American captured] should go first, then enlisted men and that kind of stuff. "The Cat" told me that President Lyndon Johnson had ordered me home. He handed me a letter from my wife, in which she had said, "I wished that you had been one of those three who got to come home." Of course, she had no way to understand the ramifications of this. "The Cat" said that the doctors had told him that I could not live unless I got medical treatment in the United States. We went through this routine and still I told him "No." Three nights later we went through it all over again. On the morning of the Fourth of July, 1968, which happened to be the same day that my father took over as commander in chief of U. S. Forces in the Pacific, I was led into another quiz room. "The Rabbit" and "The Cat" were sitting there. I walked in and sat down, and "The Rabbit" said, "Our senior wants to know your final answer." "My final answer is the same. It's 'No.' " "That is your final answer?" "That is my final answer." huge, huge balls that's some serious character there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 "That is your final answer?" Regis worked for the VC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Regis worked for the VC? Isn't it a know fact, that he's a card-carrying member of the Communist Party? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofiba Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Regis worked for the VC? I was shocked he didn't at least use a lifeline or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justnzane Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Never before seen pics of McCain's cell at the Hanoi Hilton:http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whi...in-vietnam.html Looks like it's about the size of a million dollar townhouse in Manhatten good post slash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Brasky Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Regis worked for the VC? "So Joy and I are having dinner at the Hanoi NOBU while watching the Notre Dame game and I'm telling her ENOUGH ABOUT THE HILTON! I'm trying to watch the Irish here. Meanwhile I'm worrying about whether or not we're gonna have one of those Chinese Earthquakes....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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