U.S. News & World Report has republished the 1973 article by John McCain giving a first-person account of his time as a POW. It’s really an incredible story that everyone should read. What’s important to remember is that this was not written after he decided to run for President. He wrote this piece right after returning to the U.S. after 5 1/2 years in that Hanoi pit of hell.

The man who ran the notorious Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam and kept John McCain prisoner for 5 1/2 years is speaking out. Tran Trong Duyet is now 75 years old, but 4 decades ago he was a young Vietnamese soldier who oversaw the incarceration of numerous American POW’s.

In an interview with the BBC, Duyet said of McCain, “He is a very frank man – very conservative, and very loyal to his country and the American ideal.”

Duyet went on to say that he’s followed McCain’s career closely since the war, adding “If I was American, I would vote for him.”