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An American Hero on Torture
George Everett ”Bud” Day (born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions in combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. His story - which he decided to tell in order to refute the notion that waterboarding is torture and that the U.S. is somehow the equivalent of the North Vietnamese - is below. Read and be grateful that there are men such as Col. Day who will defend our country even while experiencing true torture - something our captors will never experience.
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I got shot down over N Vietnam in 1967, a Sqdn. Commander.
After I returned in 1973…I published 2 books that dealt a lot
with “real torture” in Hanoi . Our make- believe president is
branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has
no idea what torture is.
As for me, I put thru a mock execution because I would not respond…
pistol whipped on the head….same event.. Couple of days later…
hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later, I got
shot and recaptured. Shot was OK…what happened afterwards was not.
They marched me to Vinh…put me in the rope trick, trick…almost
pulled my arms out of the sockets. Beat me on the head with a
little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot,
unbroken hand a pulp.
Next day hung me by the arms…rebroke my right wrist…wiped
out the nerves in my arms that control the hands….rolled my fingers
up into a ball. Only left the slightest movement of my L forefinger.
So I started answering with some incredible lies.
Sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck.
Hanoi.on my knees….rope trick again. Beaten by a big fool.
Into leg irons on a bed in Heartbreak Hotel.
Much kneeling—hands up at Zoo.
Really bad beating for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson.
Several more kneeling events. I could see my knee bone thru
kneeling holes.
There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo. I was the Senior
Officer of a large building because of escape…they started a mass
torture of all commanders.
I think it was July 7, 1969…they started beating me with a car fanbelt.
In first 2 days I took over 300 strokes…then stopped counting
because I never thought I would live thru it.
They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent
part in the escape. This went on for at least 3 days. On my knees…
fan belting…cut open my scrotum with fan belt stroke. opened up
both knee holes again. My fanny looked like hamburger…I could not
lie on my back.
They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape…and
that my 2 room-mates knew about it.
The next day I denied the lie.
They commenced torturing me again with 3- 6- or 9 strokes of
the fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th..to 14 October
1969. I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again.
Now, the point of this is that our make-believe
president has declared to the world that we (U.S..) are a bunch of
torturers..Thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they
catch us…because that is what the U.S. does.
Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks
that pouring a little water on some one’s face, or hanging a pair of
women’s pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE.. He is a meathead.
I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron,
in jail…as was John McCain…and we agree that McCain does
not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was
torture…or that “water boarding” is torture.
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing
our great country are a disgrace to the United States .. Please pass
this info on to Sean Hannity. He is free to use it to point out the
stupidity of the claims that water boarding…which has no after
effect…is torture.
If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC …
hurrah for the guy who poured the water.
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. Moral of the Story: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
My mother-in-law forwarded this to me the other day and I found it funny and worthy enough to post here. It’s humorous until you realize it’s where we are as a country. Enjoy…and let me know your thoughts.
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
Two Different Versions….Two Different Morals
Old Version
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.Moral of the Story: Be responsible for yourself!
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Modern Version The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green…’ ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.”Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he isin, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. Moral of the Story: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
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