Trent Lott was a POW at the Hanoi Hilton longer than Juan Meuquene, if memory serves. Why wasn’t Lott given a “Universal Perpetually Sufficient Get-Out-Of-Jail- Free Hero Card” like Juan got?
Lott wasn’t a member of the Keating Five or any other scheister group, either. The thing that precipitated his being skinned alive was that he wished an old Republican, Strom Thurmond, a happy birthday.
Meanwhile, Democrat former U.S. Senator Hollis passed legislation that put the currently reviled Confederate Battle Flag atop the SC Capitol Building; and Hollis remains unscathed and revered in democRat political circles. Ditto Clinton/Gore, whose campaign badge was a very nice enameled Rebel Battle Flag.
Does all this hoooraww about that flag mean I can no longer view the John Wayne “HORSE SOLDIERS” flick?/S
CORRECTION: In SC it was Senator (Too much consumin’ goin’ on out deah!) Hollings.
Not Hollis.
My bad. I’m so ashamed.
Trent Lott from Mississippi? No way!! Are you thinking of Jeremiah Denton?
From Wikipedia: (snip)
Jeremiah Andrew Denton, Jr. (July 15, 1924 – March 28, 2014) was a Rear Admiral and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and, following his retirement from naval service, was a United States Senator from the state of Alabama.
He spent almost eight years as a prisoner of war (POW) in North Vietnam and later wrote a book that became a film about those experiences. Denton is best known from this period of his life for the 1966 televised press conference in which he was forced to participate as an American POW by his North Vietnamese captors. He used the opportunity to communicate successfully and to confirm for the first time to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence and Americans that American POWs were being tortured in North Vietnam. He repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse code during the interview, spelling out the word "T-O-R-T-U-R-E".