Perspective
Dec. 27, 2014
Never having to say you're sorry
To me, a lifelong civilian, torture was something practiced by barbaric and brutal enemies. It was something Americans suffered, not something Americans inflicted. How times have changed. By Dan Lawton
As a boy growing up in California during the Vietnam War, I became fascinated with the stoic courage of U.S. POWs who endured torture in Southeast Asia. Foremost in my mind was the late Jeremiah Denton, a naval aviator who gave an interview on North Vietnamese television in 1966. Knowing the broadcast would be seen at home, Denton slowly blinked the word, "T-O-R-T-U-R-E," in Morse code. And so the torture of American servicemen in Vietnam ...
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