Another American Hero Has Gone West Rest In Peace Admiral Denton: Ex-senator and Vietnam POW who blinked "torture" in Morse code dies

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.

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Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks T-O-R-T-U-R-E using Morse Code as P.O.W. 

 

 

Its An Honor To Serve! (Jeremiah Denton, American Hero)

 

 And Thank You For Your Service To This Country and always, God Bless.

 Submitted by: 'Curt B. and many others'