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Lessons on the New Left from the Hanoi Hilton


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Lessons on the New Left from the Hanoi Hilton

February 28, 2014 by Lloyd Billingsley

 

C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb recently interviewed Lee Ellis, author of Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton. The book is a valuable primer on history that many Americans have forgotten or know only in part. Leading with Honor is also an introduction to characters all Americans should get to knowbetter, such as Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda. Ellis came to know the pair under different circumstances.

 

In November of 1967 Ellis was shot down on a mission to destroy the guns that protected the Quang Khe ferry that supplied the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In the Hoa Lao prison, which POWs dubbed the Hanoi Hilton, Ellis learned firsthand about North Vietnam and its systematic torture of American POWs. As the author notes, the North Vietnamese tortured more than 95 percent of American POWs including eight tortured to death. Ellis describes the “Pretzel,” one of the regime’s favorite tortures:

 

After the prisoner’s legs were tied together, his arms were laced tightly behind his back until the elbows touched and the shoulders were virtually pulled out of joint. Then the torturer snip http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/lessons-on-the-new-left-from-the-hanoi-hilton/

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Aug 16, 2012

Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association Presents: Col. Lee Ellis, USAF (Prisoner of War) on August 7, 2012
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