The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam
A MARINER BOOK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston • New York
First Mariner Books edition 2005
Copyright © 2004 by James'S. Hirsch
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ISBN-13 978-0-618-27348-5
ISBN-10 0-618-27348-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hirsch, James'S.
Two souls indivisible : the friendship that saved
two POWs in Vietnam / James'S. Hirsch.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-618-27348-4
1. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961—1975 —Prisoners and
prisoners, North Vietnamese. 2. Cherry, Fred V.
3. Halyburton, Porter. 4. Prisoners of war—United
States. 5. Prisoners of war—Vietnam. I. Title.
DS559.4.H57 2004
959.704'37'092273—dc22 2003067595
ISBN 978-0-618-56210-7 (pbk.)
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Book design by Robert Overholtzer
23456789 10 QUF
To Amanda and Garrett,
Pearls in the Constellation
1 "Better Place, Worse Place" [>]
2 One More Round [>]
3 On Target [>]
4 Hanoi's Welcome [>]
5 The Independence [>]
6 "No Chutes Observed" [>]
7 Strangers in the Cell [>]
8 No Ordinary Prisoner [>]
9 The Hanoi March [>]
10 The Home Front [>]
11 "Unspeakable Agony of the Soul" [>]
12 Change in Status [>]
13 The Good Life [>]
14 Divergent Paths at Home [>]
15 Operation Homecoming [>]
Epilogue [>]
SOURCES [>]
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [>]
INDEX [>]