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Most prisoners held in the South by the Viet Cong suffered an even worse fate. Chained in separate cages, they were kept in total isolation. Unable to communicate or even move, they would watch numbly as the guards shoveled ants and other insects into their cages...
...Viet Nam survived so well, according to one U.S. official, "is something soul-stirring, something awesome " It will likely be told in full once all the P.O.W.s are back home. Says Army Captain Mark A. Smith, 26, who had no fewer than 38 wounds when captured by the Viet Cong in April 1972: "The American people do not know what goes on in a place like that, and ii will be a shock to many of them...
After an eleven-hour delay, the first prisoners freed by the Viet Cong in the South arrived, looking more gaunt and dazed from their captivity than the men from the North. Douglas Kent Ramsey, a civilian adviser captured in 1966, walked off the plane in his prisoner's pajamas and with a subdued, satisfied smile, bowed to welcoming officers-an oddly Oriental touch...
Army Captain George Wanat was more bitter than most about his captivity with the Viet Cong. He told his father in Waterford, Conn., "I'd kill those bastards if I ever saw them again." He reported that he had been kept in solitary confinement for five months "in a bamboo cage full of ants and poisonous snakes." His diet, he said, was rice and pork fat, rationed at one bowl a day, plus some water...
Little information had been collected about captivity in the South. As the prisoners came back from that oblivion, a few fascinating details emerged. No prisoner of the Viet Cong had received a single letter since April 1970. Kept on the move, the men to some extent became inured to such illnesses as malaria and dysentery...