It’s been nearly 50 years since Dennis Thompson was captured by North Vietnamese forces as a prisoner of war.
But he still sees the black enclosed room with no light where they kept him. For five years — he counted 1,864 days — the Vietnamese imprisoned him, 850 days of which were in continuous solitary confinement.
“I’ll always be there,” the 74-year-old veteran said.
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