The story of a small, handmade American flag that gave…(John Dramesi)

“Freedom has a taste to those who fight and almost die that the protected will never know.”
 –A POW saying left on a wall in the Hoa-Lo Prison known to Westerners as the “Hanoi Hilton.”

A small American flag on display at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum was a patriotic light in the dark days of the Vietnam War.

Air Force pilot Col. John A. Dramesi was shot down over North Vietnam and captured . . .

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