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Bob Hayes

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Bob Hayes relates the story of Bernard Fall, an author who was along with a Marine unit near Hue. It did not end well for the writer. Later, during that same operation, he watched his radioman get hit and then it was his turn. (7:32)

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He recovered so well from injuries suffered from a land mine that they sent him back to his unit. Bob Hayes thought he was going home, but he went back to work in the most hard hit unit in the Marines. He did get a ticket home, soon, courtesy of a North Vietnamese machine gunner chained to a tree. (5:46)

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His arm was wrecked by a 30 cal round and Bob Hayes began a round of surgeries, first in Japan and then back home. He was sneaking out of the hospital to party with his friends, but the chief surgeon put a stop to that. Once he had recovered, he couldn't avoid getting in trouble one more time before his discharge. (9:45)

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Wounded twice in Vietnam, Bob Hayes was just trying to get on with his life. The protestors where he was attending college were a big obstacle to this, but a chance phone call from another veteran led to a very positive development; reunions with his buddies. (7:45)

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He'd made a pact with his radioman. If either one of them was killed, the other would visit the family. Bob Hayes had the very tough duty of visiting the father of his friend, Walter Weiss. That death was devastating to him, but it's for the innocent civilians caught up in war that he pleads. (4:24)

Lee Ellis

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Ellis describes exactly what it was like to be interrogated, and explains what the Hanoi Hilton was. He reveals the men he was imprisoned with, namely Lieutenant Colonel Edison Miller and 1st Lieutenant James Warner. The Lieutenant Colonel turned out to be way too cooperative with the enemy, and the rest of the men were left with no choice but to relieve him of command (Part 2 of 2). (7:39)

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After a few months, Ellis was split up from the group of other prisoners he shared a cell with, including the Lieutenant Colonel. The POW Camps had plenty of US prisoners locked away, and it was very difficult for them to communicate with one another because of how split up the different groups were. Ellis shares the living conditions of his prison cell and what it was like to stay there for so long. He would constantly have nightmares. (4:34)

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Lee Ellis illustrates how he remembers getting shot down and ejecting himself out of his aircraft and straight into enemy territory. Fortunately his co-pilot, Ken Fischer, managed to also survive and the two of them surrendered to the North Vietnamese as soon as they reached the ground. (Part 2 of 3) (5:55)

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Despite what he originally thought, Lee Ellis was told many years later by an outside witness that his plane was in fact not shot down, and instead an electrical fuse blew up the bombs on the wing of his plane which made it seem like he was shot. He describes the details of how he got captured and sent to a POW Camp (Part 3 of 3). (6:41)

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After Ellis was captured, he was put in a barn-like building. During that time the North Vietnamese had a "political pep-rally" to celebrate the capture of these American pilots, and it was the duty of their guards to make sure that they got to Hanoi. (7:14)