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During the Vietnam war many U.S. soldiers became prisoners of war (POWs). Some of those prisoners ended up in prisons such as the Hoa Lo prison. The Hoa Lo prison, located in the middle of the city of Hanoi, was nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton. It ....

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... would hold up his ropes and pretend they had captured him. The prisoner was then taken to Hoa Lo suffering from pneumonia and fever and thrown into a torture chamber. The POWs would later refer to this place as the "New Guy Village" because all new prisoners were interrogated there. The prisoner was subjected to five days with neither food nor water. In addition, no sleep was allowed and the questions and beatings continued (Colvin 6). Prisoners were beaten for a variety of reasons; for example, a prisoner would be told to sign a paper and if he refused, he was beaten. The papers were usually statements or words quoted from Bobb ...