Post by albion on Oct 10, 2015 20:53:29 GMT
This is about James H Warner, Hanoi Hilton survivor and VMF323 pilot. He is definitely not earons. The first pic below describes when Warner was shot down with Miller while flying for the VMW323 Deathrattlers. The second is from the Last Circle by Cherie Seymour. As well as the third.
More to come....
"He said he learned how to speak French and wrote a book about mathematics on paper from packs of Vietnamese cigarettes. During a 13-month stint in solitary confinement, Warner tried to remember the content of books that he had read.
Warner said he was transferred back to the Hanoi Hilton in 1970.
It was in the aftermath of a riot there, Warner said, that he met former Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Starting in January 1971, the North Vietnamese passed a rule that prohibited prisoners from praying or doing anything religious.
Warner said he was in a cell with about 60 other prisoners, and McCain was in a similar situation next door.
The North Vietnamese removed high-ranking American POWs from both cells, which left McCain in command. On March 19, 1971, Warner said McCain led the prisoners in singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." The singing prompted the guards to remove the prisoners from the cells at gunpoint and line them up against a wall, where they were tied up and blindfolded.
The prisoners thought they would be executed.
Warner said McCain told him not to worry because the guards, who the prisoners believed were incompetent, "would screw things up and miss when they started shooting."
He said he was released in March 1973 after the Paris Peace Agreement was signed by American and North Vietnamese officials."