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26 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM: Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi was used by French colonial authorities to imprison Vietnamese political prisoners and later, during the "American War" by the North Vietnamese, to house American Prisoners of War, including John McCain and Pete Peterson. Then it earned the nickname the "Hanoi Hilton." Peterson became the first American ambassador to Vietnam after relations were normalized. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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26 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM: Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi was used by French colonial authorities to imprison Vietnamese political prisoners and later, during the "American War" by the North Vietnamese, to house American Prisoners of War, including John McCain and Pete Peterson. Then it earned the nickname the "Hanoi Hilton." Peterson became the first American ambassador to Vietnam after relations were normalized. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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