I completely and absolutely agree. My husband was a Vietnam vet and
a POW, who was tortured by his North Vietnamese captors. He
suffered from his injuries for over thirty years, until his fatal
heart attack two years ago.
After he returned home, the doctors had to remove all of his
toenails three times to try to get rid of the bamboo infection from
the torture. It didn't work and he still had the infection when he
died. He never got a full nights sleep. My nights are still haunted
by his screams. There was never enough food in the house to satisfy
the hole that the food deprivation left.
It has become my mission to be Dan's voice, to explain how torture
affected his life. I will go anywhere, anytime to help stop torture
as the law, policy and practice of the United States.
EVERY American MUST stand up and tell their representatives :
NOT IN MY NAME!
NEVER IN MY NAME!
and they need to keep saying it until the torture stops.
Torture is ALWAYS wrong, no matter who is doing it to whom.
For Dan,
Heather
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