For all their tub-thumping about peace and rights, they'd left him and his comrades from Air Force Intelligence in a Vietnamese prison for over two years.
This weekend on the History Channel, Senator John McCain discusses his imprisonment in a North Vietnamese prison.
He was captured immediately and spent six years in a Vietnamese prison before he was released in an amnesty in 1998 and returned to the United States.
By May, 2006, over 300 Montagnard people remained in Vietnamese prisons for their faith.
She also interviewed Gary Glitter inside his Vietnamese prison in 2007.
But did this soldier really escape from a Vietnamese prison and return at all?
In 1976, three years after his release from a North Vietnamese prison, he briefly considered running for Congress from Florida, where he was stationed with the Navy.
Returning from a Vietnamese prison, he decides to return to Catherine, but discovers she has made a new life for herself.
Around the time of Ratsbane there are reports of him being briefly in both North and South Vietnamese prisons.
"But weren't you in a North Vietnamese prison?"