VIETNAM POW RECALLS MOMENT OF INSIGHT ABOUT CAPTORS
November 20, 2008
November 20, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
By Kari Hawkins,
Redstone Rocket Staff
With the help of an old nail, Air Force Col. Leo Thorsness, a Vietnam prisoner of war captured in 1967, was able to make a peephole in the mortar of his cell wall.
That peephole not only provided Thorsness with a sense of the world outside his cell, but also gave him a new insight about his captors that sustained him through his tort . . .
By Kari Hawkins,
Redstone Rocket Staff
With the help of an old nail, Air Force Col. Leo Thorsness, a Vietnam prisoner of war captured in 1967, was able to make a peephole in the mortar of his cell wall.
That peephole not only provided Thorsness with a sense of the world outside his cell, but also gave him a new insight about his captors that sustained him through his tort . . .