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Ex-Gov. Kernan, former POW, returns to Vietnam

Associated Press

Former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan is making an emotional return to Vietnam, where he spent 11 months as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.

WSBT-TV reports that Kernan and his wife Maggie on Monday visited the sites of two Hanoi prisons where he was held after his Navy reconnaissance plane was shot down in 1972.

Kernan spent most of his time as a POW in a prison once dubbed "The Zoo."

He became emotional during a visit to the site of that prison as he recalled the moment when he realized his family knew he was still alive after his plane was shot down.

While visiting the site of the notorious "Hanoi Hilton" prison, Kernan had a meeting with a guard who was assigned to that prison. But neither man could recall the other.

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