[SkyPilot]

Thanks for posting the bio on Col "Bud" Day. I read the whole article from the Washington Times. Great piece.

The only thing they did get wrong, as you pointed out, was that Day was a Major when he was captured, but he was promoted to full bird Colonel (0-6) while he was in captivity.

His wife was able to let him know of his promotion by very clever means. The Vietcong torturers who held him would not let this news come to him openly. So, his wife sent him a care package. The Vietnamese raided it and ate many of the items, but left the packaging.

The packages his wife sent all had a reference to an eagle. Eagle milk, eagle toothpaste, eagle nail clippers, etc.

Day figured it out and laughed like hell in his cell.

[allthingsnew]

Do you remember, too, how, when he got to send a postcard, he communicated to his Wife his views on the 1972 Presidential election? He knew that he couldn't write anything overtly political, so he wrote "Don't let the children buy the donkey."

My family and I had the honor of meeting Col. Day and his lovely Wife (they've been married fifty years or thereabouts); they are wonderful.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

His (Col. Day's) wife was able to let him know of his promotion by very clever means. The Vietcong torturers who held him would not let this news come to him openly. So, his wife sent him a care package. The Vietnamese raided it and ate many of the items, but left the packaging. The packages his wife sent all had a reference to an eagle. Eagle milk, eagle toothpaste, eagle nail clippers.

Great story! Where's the movie of Col. Day's heroics, Hollywood?