CBS: Prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton declared his loyalty to the U.S. government during a 1966 interview for what was supposed to be a propaganda film. But his enraged captors missed his more covert message: “T-O-R-T-U-R-E,” blinked into the camera in Morse code, a dispatch that would alert the U.S. military to the conditions he endured.
Denton, who would survive 7 1/2 years confined in a tiny, stinking, windowless cell at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” and other camps before his release in 1973, died of heart problems Friday in Virginia Beach, Va., at age 89, his grandson Edward Denton said.
The elder Denton later became the first Republican from Alabama elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, though the iron will that allowed him to persevere in captivity gave rise to criticism he was too rigid a politician. MORE
h/t Rob.
RIP Sir…Salute
Truly one of the GREAT patriots. Rest in Peace Sir, you have earned it and deserve it!
A true patriot.
He set the bar high.
requiescat in pace Sir…
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
RIP Mr. Denton! Hard to imagine what hell he would have gone though. I hope his surviving family are doing well.
God bless you sir …. Lord, keep & protect this man on his journey
a far cry from ‘Songbird’ McShitStain
He was narrowly defeated when he ran for re-election for U.S. Senator by a conservative Democrat, Richard Shelby, who later became a Republican. He was truly a great American. Godspeed, Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton.
I have noticed in the last 70 years( probably went on before ’48)that patriotic Americans are referred to by the LSM as: rigid, racist, xenophobic, , right wing nut job….
I think the quot in the last sentence probably dates about 30 years ago. But it was true in “8; true in 2016; and will be true in 2050.
“the more things change – the more they stay the same”. Has been right when talking about the America hating press.
He was a better man than McCain and Kerry. God Bless him
And a better man than I.
I am humbled by the man’s courage. A place I was nevered forced to be in.
RIP good sir.
God bless Shipmate, may you find the rest you deserve.
Interesting, the guy who beat him winds up as one of the republicans who let Clinton off the hook in 1998. Too bad Sen. Denton was in the Senate during the reign of Klinton.
Article from 2014?
Patriot1783, apparently so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton
Still doesn’t take away the fact that John McCain could’t tie Jeremiah Denton’s shoes.