On a granite wall in Washington, D.C., the story of Capt. Edward A. Brudno’s suffering remains untold. There is no recognition of the beatings he took or the interrogations he resisted – nothing that acknowledges 7 1/2 years of captivity in a windowless room.
Three decades after being tortured in North Vietnamese prison camps, his name is still not etched into the memorial wall that recognizes soldiers who died as a result of wounds suffered in the war.
The omission was intentional. Brudno, a Quincy native, was kept off the Vietnam Veterans Memorial because the wounds that killed him were psychological and resulted in his suicide in 1973 four months after his return to the United States.
