Vietnam POW Memorial

This memorial commemorates two resident of Quincy who were prisoner-of-war in Vietnam: Captain Stratton and Captain E. Alan Brudno.
E. Alan Brudno returned to the US in 1973, after 7 and a half years of captivity in Hanoi where he suffered torture. Just a few months later, he tragically took his own life, the first of the returning POW's to die. It was an early wake-up call that these men had suffered much deeper psychological trauma than was realized. He was also a victim of the awful reception returning POW's received from a public that had long since turned against the war.
In 2004, his name was carved onto the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Flickr