Five Years as a POW in Vietnam (Myron Donald)

Myron Donald grew up on a corner of his grandfather’s farm Moravia in central New York.  His father was a carpenter; his mother a housewife.  He has two brothers and a sister.  In high school, he played football, baseball and basketball and was president of the Student Council.  He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and entered pilot training in Selma, Alabama, just a few months after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s civil rights march to Montgomery.

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