halyburton, porter

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halyburton, porter

Two souls indivisible

the friendship that saved two POWs in Vietnam
2004
Describes the imprisonment, friendship, and release of two Vietnam prisoners of war, Fred Cherry, the first African-American officer captured by the Vietnamese, and Porter Halyburton, a racist southerner, and how they overcame their differences to survive.
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