Vietnam POWs honored at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (William Thomas)

Vietnam POW Jack Van Loan dies in Columbia SC at 87

Jack Van Loan, an Oregon native and fighter pilot who spent six years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and then served for 20 years as executive director of the Five Points Association in Columbia, has died. He was 87. “He was a mentor,

Wilfred K. Abbott, Col., USAF

We are sad to announce that Wilfred Keese Abbott passed away peacefully after a brief but intense battle with cancer. In his final days, he was surrounded by loved ones. Will is survived by his wife, Sharon Abbott of Coronado; sons Mike (Melissa) of Anchorage, Alaska and Steve (Shawn) of

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

Pilot Recalls ‘Bad Attitude’ Made Him Suffer in Hanoi (James Mulligan)

To the North Vietnamese, Capt. James A. Mulligan Jr. had a “bad attitude.” As a result, he suffered heavily during his seven years in Hanoi prison. He spent 42 months in solitary confinement during the first four years, and for 16 of those months he was kept in a camp

“See You Guys After The War”: An Air Force Pilot In Peace, War, And Captivity (Elmo Baker)

Mo Baker was born in 1932 in Morehouse, Missouri, the middle child of five. His dad was an insurance salesman and a master mason, and his mother raised the family.