A Real Hero of Hanoi Hilton, gets his name on a Navy Destroyer U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Chairman of the Senate Seapower Subcommittee, today announced that Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer has named a future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer for the late U.S. Senator Jeremiah Denton. Ingalls Shipbuilding, located in Pascagoula, will build the ship. Denton graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a Naval Aviator in Vietnam, where he was later taken as a prisoner of war July 18, 1965, U.S. Navy Comdr. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., was shot down while leading an air attack on a military installation in North Vietnam. Captured by the North Vietnamese that day, he remained a prisoner of war for seven years and seven months, enduring years of solitary confinement and brutal mistreatment. On May 2, 1966, as part of a propaganda campaign, the North Vietnamese arranged for him to be interviewed for television by a Japanese reporter. Asked about his views on the actions of the U.S. Government, he strongly affirmed his government’s position, in defiance of his captors’ instructions; he prepared himself for a torture session that was sure to follow. While speaking on camera, he blinked in Morse code the word “T-O-R-T-U-R-E.” Eventually, the videotape was widely circulated and reviewed by U.S. Naval Intelligence. Denton’s one-word report, delivered in Morse code, was the first clear confirmation received by U.S. Intelligence that American POWs were, in fact, being tortured. He later speculated that the North Vietnamese did not learn of his blinking message until 1974. The taped interview is among the holdings of the Special Media Archives—Records of the Central Intelligence Agency. Promoted during his captivity, Captain Denton was released on February 12, 1973. After retiring from the U.S. Navy as a rear admiral, he was elected to the U.S. Senate where he served from 1981 until 1987. A real Hero, not like that POS no name  https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=8 https://www.wicker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/1/wicker-announces-navy-destroyer-to-be-named-for-jeremiah-denton