Bud Day: Medal of Honor Recipient Describes the Torture He Received

I got shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, after I returned in 1973 I published 2 books that dealt a lot with the real torture in Hanoi . Our make believe President is branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has no idea what torture is. I was put through a mock execution; pistol whipped on the head, and repeated every Couple of days. Other days I’d be hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later only to get shot and recaptured. Being shot was nothing compared to what happened afterwards.

The enemy marched me to Vinh and put me in the rope trick almost pulling my arms out of their sockets. They Beat me on the head to a pulp with a little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut. The next day I was hung by the arms re-breaking my right wrist, wiping out the nerves that control the hands, as my fingers rolled up into a ball. The only feeling left was the slightest movement in my left forefinger. So I started answering with some incredible lies. This got me sent to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck.

In Hanoi on my knees the rope trick was preformed again. I was beaten by a big fool put into leg irons on a bed in the Heartbreak Hotel. With Much kneeling, my hands up at the Zoo the really bad beating started for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson. after several more kneeling events I could see my knee bone through the kneeling holes. There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo and because I was the Senior Officer of a large building after the escape attempt they started a mass torture of all commanders.

I think it was July 7, 1969 when they started beating me with a car fan belt. In the first 2 days I took over 300 strokes then stopped counting because I never thought I would live thru it. They continued day and night torturing to get me to confess to a non-existent part in the escape. This went on for at least 3 days. On my knees taking the fan belting the fan belt cut open my scrotum on a stroke that I’ll never forget. They opened up both knee holes again and my fanny looked like hamburger meat. I could not lie on my back. They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape and that my 2 room-mates knew about it. The next day I denied the lie. They commenced torturing me again with 3, 6, or 9 strokes of the fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12rh..to 14 October 1969. I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again.

The point of this is that our make-believe President has declared to the world that we (U.S..) are a bunch of torturers. Thus it will be OK to torture us next time they catch us because that is what the U.S. does. Our President is a know nothing fool who thinks that pouring a little water on someone’s face, or hanging a pair of women’s pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE. He is a meathead. I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron, in jail as was John McCain, and we agree that McCain does not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was torturer or that “water boarding” is torture.

Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing our great country are a disgrace to the United States. Please pass this info on to Sean Hannity. He is free to use it to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding, which has no after effect, is torture. If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC hurrah for the guy who poured the water.

George Everett “Bud” Day (born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions in combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

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