"We were highly combat ready. We believed that the North Vietnamese, who were Communists led by the old atheist dictat…"

"Guys were doing everything in order to get on the flight schedule, in order to be on a combat mission. It wasn't the …"

"So, to my astonishment, we lived, or I lived, and many of the senior officers shared my plight, for the most time...t…"

"I lived in abject misery for the rest of the time I was a prisoner, knowing that I had not upheld the standards that …"

"During the whole period of time we were in prison we heard of protests. Of course, the Vietnamese exposed us to four …"

"Korea was probably the high point of my whole career as far as real gratification is concerned."

"Of all the indignities we were forced to undergo, I guess I resented meeting the foreign delegations more than any ot…"

"I never lost hope, and never did I despair of coming back alive."

"Resist until you are tortured, but do not take torture to the point where you lose the permanent use of your limbs."

"Fear is a luxury one can’t afford."