I visited the notorious prison, “The Hanoi Hilton” today. This is the prison where American prisoners, including John McCain were held and tortured.
The prison was originally built in the 1890s and was used to hold Vietnamese political prisoners who were fighting the French colonial rule. These prisoners were often tortured as well. Those facing death sentences were executed with a guillotine.
The Hoa Lo Prison Museum is well worth a visit. The place is well laid out with sections dealing with the entire history of the facility. The numerous photos, written histories and films are all worth watching. They have many artifacts on display, including the guillotine used to execute prisoners and personal effects and items of the American POWs. There is even a flight suit that might have belonged to John McCain.
One of the weirder parts of the museum is the propaganda videos and pictures claiming the Americans were treated humanly. The prison was a place for extreme brutality, by all sides, to try to sugar coat it with 1960s error bad propaganda is not fooling anyone. The French brutally treated the Vietnamese, the American fliers killed tens of thousands innocents, old people, children. Finally the Vietnamese tortured and regularity beat American POWs .
Johm McCain’s sorry In His Own Words
The prison was originally built in the 1890s and was used to hold Vietnamese political prisoners who were fighting the French colonial rule. These prisoners were often tortured as well. Those facing death sentences were executed with a guillotine.
The Hoa Lo Prison Museum is well worth a visit. The place is well laid out with sections dealing with the entire history of the facility. The numerous photos, written histories and films are all worth watching. They have many artifacts on display, including the guillotine used to execute prisoners and personal effects and items of the American POWs. There is even a flight suit that might have belonged to John McCain.
One of the weirder parts of the museum is the propaganda videos and pictures claiming the Americans were treated humanly. The prison was a place for extreme brutality, by all sides, to try to sugar coat it with 1960s error bad propaganda is not fooling anyone. The French brutally treated the Vietnamese, the American fliers killed tens of thousands innocents, old people, children. Finally the Vietnamese tortured and regularity beat American POWs .
Johm McCain’s sorry In His Own Words
