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Time did not fly by. To quote Shawshank Redemption, "Prison time is slow time." We occupied time with mental activity, for instance one guy made a whole house in his head, from the foundation up, and later built that house when he came back.

We went to the Philippines and visited a big cafeteria where they had every type of food you can imagine, and chefs that would make everything you asked for. The first thing I ordered was a big steak and some ice cream.

I did. There was a communist news broadcast on the radio that I heard, which described the soviet unions accomplishments in space. It said the USSR put a probe on the moon, without endangering a human life, unlike another country.

The Japanese informed the village that I was coming, people came in from miles around to see me. It was a giant party. I hat tea, gifts for the village children. I knew smoking was so popular in Vietnam so I gave him cigarettes. I had to go through 3 translators, English>Japanese>Vietnamese for every spoken interaction, it was very confusing what was actually being said. But we had a very good time. He wanted me to stay the night, but we had a busy schedule.

Yes, I was told. They gave us a lot of food prior to letting us go to fatten us up. They gave us new clothes. We were taken by bus to the airport where an international prisoner exchange ceremony took place. We were put into american airplanes and flown to the Philippines very quickly.

I left the air force after returning and I became a commercial airline pilot. Maybe one of you flew on one of the planes I flew!