Sep 16, 2008 11:08 pm US/Pacific
McCain Gets Backing From Vietnamese Jailer
Kiet Do, Reporting
(CBS 5)
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Image from Swedish broadcaster SVT of John McCain as a former POW during a prisoner exchange in Hanoi on March 14, 1973.
SVT
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has received an unlikely endorsement, from the commander of the Vietnamese prison where McCain was a POW.
Tran Trong Duyet commanded the notorious Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi where McCain was held up for five and a half years. Now, he has endorsed McCain for president, citing his work to normalize relations between Vietnam and the U.S.
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