How I Survived the Vietnam War

Doug Ramsey was a Foreign Service officer, a really outstanding American who in 1962 made him his mind. He wanted to go on serving Vietnam and was involved in pacification programs or systems for a time as John Paul Van's advisor. But then beginning of 1966, he was driving a truck with a load of rice up to some village and got ambushed by the Viet Cong and captured. Seven years,. not in the Hanoi Hilton, but in a bamboo cage in the jungle. How he survived God only knows. His health absolutely destroyed. I mean, when I saw him, he could hardly move his body at all. And he taught so movingly because even though he'd suffered so