Trampling the Serpent: Vietnam POW: Revealing True Character Colonel Usaf-Retired John Fer
Trampling the Serpent: Vietnam POW: Revealing True Character Colonel Usaf-Retired John Fer Vietnam is sometimes called the land of the rising serpent, or dragon, because its geographical landmass…
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Trampling the Serpent: Vietnam POW: Revealing True Character Colonel Usaf-Retired John Fer
Vietnam is sometimes called the land of the rising serpent, or dragon, because its geographical landmass resembles a serpent (or dragon) in an upward configuration. Wounded by shrapnel when his EB-66C aircraft was shot down by surface-to-air missiles on February 4, 1967, he recounts his seventy-three months of captivity, which brought him face-to-face with mistreatment and deprivation and Communist charge that he was a war criminal and subject to tribunals. In this book, taken from Colonel Fer's personal experience of more than six years of Communist incarceration at the hands of the North Vietnamese, one learns of his surprising, actually shocking, awakening from the idyllic world of an idealistic, future-oriented combat pilot backward into the ancient world of warfare, where brutality toward POWs was the norm.
It was also a world of deprivation that ignored any considerations of