A Veterans Day salute to Vietnam War POWs... "My heroes wore pajamas By Alvin Townley My boyhood heroes carried swords and rode white horses; they flew planes from aircraft carriers; they wore our country’s uniform. To me, the grace of Washington or the dash of Patton marked a leader. More recently, I’ve admired haggard special operators outfitted with equal parts training, technology and mettle. Today, however, the warriors I respect most wore pajamas and flip-flops. They were captured at war and confined to lonely Southeast Asian cells, barely subsisting on watery soup; some weighed scarcely more than 100 pounds. The greatest leaders I have ever known were manacled, savagely beaten and tortured into submission — again and again — yet they defended their country and their honor with as much ferocity as Americans showed on the beaches of Normandy or in the streets of Fallujah. These prisoners of war just did it for eight straight years." http://atlantaforward.blog.ajc.com/2014/11/07/salute-to-vietnam-vets/