What remains of the Hanoi Hilton is now a museum, most of it having been torn down to make room for a major high rise. What's left is clean, nicely preserved and generally well done. It is also as grim a place as I have walked through, from the outer walls encrusted with large shards of broken glass (in place of razor/barbed wire), to the size of the cells, well you get the picture.
Whatever one says of McCain, surely his bravery and strength of will to survive as long as he did in that hell hole demonstrates the stupidity of attaching those traits.
Curiously enough, 3 days after my visit to the Hanoi Hilton, I was in Can Tho, on the Mekong River, and while in my hotel room turned on HBO and was treated to the movie (I think) called the John McCain Story.
I bet Vietnam is being nice to McCain because the last thing they want is payback. I know if I had the crap beaten out of me for five years by Democrats, I’d be planning my first nuke strike on Hanoi the minute I was inaugurated.