{"id":29802,"date":"2014-09-04T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29802"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:15:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:15:20","slug":"vietnam-pow-lee-ellis-returns-to-hanoi-hilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/vietnam-pow-lee-ellis-returns-to-hanoi-hilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam POW Lee Ellis Returns to Hanoi Hilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes chronicles the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/vietnam-pow-returns-to-the-hanoi-hilton-in-search-of-closure-1.297457\">return of retired US Air Force Col Lee Ellis<\/a> to the Hanoi Hilton &#8212; the infamous POW prison that housed him for more than two of the six years of his capture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other memories came floating back \u2014 leg irons and handcuffs, rubber sandals to make it difficult to escape, a steady diet of pumpkin soup alternating with months of cabbage soup, and a first meal as a prisoner of fish heads and rice, which apparently was standard fare for new captives. Before missions, pilots used to joke with each other to be careful or they\u2019d be eating fish heads that night.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wondered if the guards knew the joke,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ellis previously <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/christian-fighter-pilot-speaks-at-us-air-force-academy\/\">spoke at the US Air Force Academy<\/a> and wrote a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/book-review-leading-with-honor\/\"><em>Leading with Honor<\/em><\/a>, that was included on the US Air Force Chief of Staff&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/air-force-reading-list-highlights-christian-autobiography\/\">reading list<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>His story is touching and telling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes chronicles the return of retired US Air Force Col Lee Ellis to the Hanoi Hilton &#8212; the infamous POW prison that housed him for more than two of the six years of his capture. Other memories came floating back \u2014 leg irons and handcuffs, rubber sandals to make it difficult to escape, a steady diet of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3908,3226,3225,2,2335,10,171,65,90],"class_list":["post-29802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-hanoi-hilton","tag-leading-with-honor","tag-lee-ellis","tag-military","tag-pow","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-usafa","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}