"When Hell Was In Session" is the title of Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton's book that I read and recommended in June 2012. Now Rear Admiral Denton has been recognized by World Net Daily. "WND calls him 1st annual 'Lifetime Achievement Award' recipient."
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Bruce
'Jeremiah A. Denton’s life took a fateful turn for the worse on July 18, 1965, when the A6 Intruder he was piloting – leading an attack squadron of 28 airplanes off the deck of the carrier USS Independence – was shot down while targeting the heavily defended Thanh Hoa Bridge about 75 miles south of Saigon.
Having snapped a tendon in his left leg while trying to prevent the A6 from crashing after being hit by enemy fire, Denton ejected and parachuted to ground, only to land in a river where armed North Vietnamese soldiers easily captured him.
“Dazed and bleeding as I was, my principal emotion was fury,” Denton wrote in his 1975 bestseller, “When Hell Was In Session,” describing the almost unimaginable hardships he faced – as well as the phenomenal ingenuity and perseverance of the American POWs – during his nearly eight years of captivity in and around the notorious “Hanoi Hilton.”'
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