Excerpt: "The body is first to give up. You cannot keep yourself from passing out, throwing up, screaming. I discovered that the more the body convulsed involuntarily, the more I could observe it as though it belonged to someone else. I found I could intellectualize pain, which allowed me to take a quantum leap in my tolerance of it. Sometimes, though, the problem was staying in touch with reality enough to keep alive. Detaching oneself too much has an insidious narcotic effect that invades one's reason and dulls normal danger signals. This is probably the way nature helps us die without being all tensed up."
And the young, safely Stateside Lieutenant John Kerry handed the Viet Cong more tools.
How does a released POW come home and stomach John Kerry?
Did the man who experienced this deserve to be sold out?
Does the man who sold him out deserve to be President?