Only the words medieval barbarity, inquisition, or Nazi or Japanese warlord prison camps, can conjure up the image of what was done to this Member of Congress and 10 other men who stood up to the Communist brutality in Hanoi, and were isolated for almost 4 years from everyone else and from one another in a slimy little hole in downtown Hanoi that they, with fighter pilot bravado, called Alcatraz.
Describing the harsh conditions faced by a fellow Member of Congress during captivity in Hanoi.
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