http://www.rickwarrennews.com/transcript/civil_forum_transcript-05.doc 20 A VIETNAMESE KEPT US IN PRISON IN CONDITIONS OF
21 SOLITAIRY CONFINEMENT FOR TWO OR THREE TO A CELL. THEY
22 DID THAT BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY COULD BREAK DOWN OUR
23 RESISTANCE. ONE OF THE TECHNIQUES THAT THEY USED TO GET
24 INFORMATION WAS TO TAKE ROPES AND TIE THEM AROUND YOUR
25 BICEPS, PULL YOUR BICEPS BEHIND YOU, LOOP THE ROPE AROUND
1 YOUR HEAD, PULL YOUR HEAD DOWN BETWEEN YOUR KNEES AND
2 LEAVE YOU IN THAT POSITION. YOU CAN MANAGE, IT'S VERY
3 UNCOMFORTABLE. ONE NIGHT I WAS BEING PUNISHED IN THAT
4 FASHION. ALL OF A SUDDEN THE DOOR OF THE CELL OPENED, THE
5 GUARD CAME IN, A GUY WHO WAS JUST WHAT WE CALL A GUN
6 GUARD. HE JUST WALKED AROUND THE CAMP WITH A GUN ON HIS
7 SHOULDER. HE WENT LIKE THIS AND THEN HE LOOSENED THE
8 ROPES. HE CAME BACK ABOUT FOUR HOURS LATER, HE TIGHTENED
9 THEM UP AGAIN AND LEFT. THE FOLLOWING CHRISTMAS, BECAUSE
10
IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY, WE WERE ALLOWED TO STAND OUTSIDE OF
11 OUR CELL FOR A FEW MINUTES, AND THOSE DAYS WE WERE NOT
12 ALLOWED TO SEE OR COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER ALTHOUGH WE
13 CERTAINLY DID. AND I WAS STANDING OUTSIDE FOR MY FEW
14 MINUTES, OUTSIDE MY CELL. HE CAME WALKING UP. HE STOOD
15 THERE FOR A MINUTE AND WITH HIS HANDLE ON THE DIRT IN THE
16 COURTYARD HE DREW A CROSS AND HE STOOD THERE AND A MINUTE
17 LATER, HE RUBBED IT OUT AND WALKED AWAY. FOR A MINUTE
18 THERE, THERE WAS JUST TWO CHRISTIANS WORSHIPPING TOGETHER.
19 I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT MOMENT SO EVERY DAY --