 Seven men, elite U.S. Fighter Pilots,
struggled for survival while prisoners of the
North Vietnamese. They were shot down while flying over the infamous Red River
Valley, a war zone so hot, so dangerous, that each bombing raid took the lives of
unspeakable numbers on both sides.
Against the canons of the Geneva Convention, the men were held not as captured
fliers but as war criminals. Jane Fonda even
suggested that they be tried for their crimes -- like the German and Japanese soldiers of
World War II. (See a transcript of one of her Radio Hanoi
broadcasts) Those who survived, came home unheralded and unwanted.
Tonight the men will reunite. It is the height of the Reagan era, years since the war changed their lives. The reunion
is filled with intense emotions: wrought with laughter, love and tears. They begin to
unravel the mysterious betrayal by one of their own, in the notorious prison camp called
the Zoo. Ultimately, they strip away the
veneer of their current lives, and come to grips with their experiences and the horrors of
war.
"Far From Glory" is based on Paul
Gillette's Pulitzer Prize Nominated
play Red River Rats, which premiered in Los Angeles in 1994.
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