“I think that he really did, despite all we’ve been told, to the contrary, he really DID get his BELL RUNG, by the VietComs at the Hanoi-Hilton.”
John crashed 3 planes and survived before his final crash in a rice paddy in Nam.
The first 3 crashes had to ring his bell.
His final crash, an unplanned landing in a Rice Paddy in Nam, probably really rang his bell. Of course the Viet Cong rescuers probably inflicted a few rings of his bell.
His Annapolis Classmates wondered about his behavoir at Annapolis and afterwards.