SCARS & STRIPES…
…are what came to Navy Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel after his plane was shot down over North Vietnam. For six years he was a prisoner of the brutal Communists, and for all six years he found strength over despair through the power of God.
From the Naval Academy to the POW camps of Vietnam to Capitol Hill and possibly to the White House — one of America’s most remarkable menIn 1998, at the dedication of the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, former Attorney General Griffin Bell, a Democrat, introduced Senator John
Executive Summary 5 Years and 8 Months is a groundbreaking multimedia memoir that captures the harrowing reality of 2,069 days in captivity through the actual voice of the man who lived it. Unlike traditional memoirs polished by time and editors, this project is built upon 18 raw, candid cassette tapes recorded by Col.
On August 5, 1964, while Lt. (jg) Everett Alvarez was flying a retaliatory air strike against naval targets in North Vietnam, antiaircraft fire crippled his A-4 fighter-bomber, forcing him to eject over water at low altitude. Alvarez relates the engrossing tale of his capture by fishermen, brutal treatment by the
By the time of the Vietnam War era, the “Mexican American Generation” had made tremendous progress both socially and politically. However, the number of Mexican Americans in comparison to the number of white prisoners of war (POWs) illustrated the significant discrimination and inequality the Chicano population faced in both military
