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Title: A Code to Keep: The True Story of America's Longest-Held Civilian POW in Vietnam by Ernest C. Brace ISBN: 1-55571-623-7 Publisher: Hellgate Press Pub. Date: 25 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The portrayal of a real hero.......
Comment: Former marine pilot Ernest C. Brace was employed as a U.S. contract pilot for USAID, flying in Laos supporting Vietnam war efforts, when his airstrip was overrun by enemy forces in May of 1965 and he was taken captive.
In his initial 3 years of captivity in Laos, Brace would be held alternately by Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops. Suffering inhuman conditions and being caged like an animal, he would end up attempting 3 daring escapes earning him brutal beatings and subsequent injuries that would affect him the rest of his life.
Upon being transferred to North Vietnam, Ernest Brace would continue his last four and a half years of imprisonment in the Hanoi Hilton, Plantation, and Briar Patch prison compounds. While confined in these locations, though not obligated to do so, he honorably followed the U.S. serviceman's code of conduct earning him the respect and admiration of all the American prisoners he was with.
Although never tortured like other POW's, Brace would risk this many times as he became a major junction for communications between prisoners which helped boost morale and also heightened resistance to captors. Offered early release due to his civilian status, he declined with the intention of only going home when the sum total of American servicemen were also released.
Upon repatriation from Vietnam in 1973, after almost 8 years in captivity (four and a half of those years in solitary confinement), Brace would find his return triumphant and bittersweet at the same time. Learning that his wife had remarried during his imprisonment and spending a full year in hospital visits to repair his injured body, he would eventually find success, happiness, and prosperity in the years to follow.
Ernest C. Brace, the longest held civilian POW of the Vietnam war, is a true American hero in every sense of the word and is an outstanding example of how patriotism, loyalty, courage, and inspiration are brought out in a person. So much so that he was awarded the highest civilian award given by the Department of Defense for his actions during confinement in Vietnam.
A Code To Keep is a well written and remarkable narrative on POW captivity and comes highly recommended to everyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not easily impressed by war books, this tale was riveting
Comment: I read this book quite a few years ago. I was in a Marine infantry platoon in Vietnam, and am not easily impressed by war stories. Too many of them are exaggerated, or just plain untrue. When this book first came out I found out Brace and I were both working at Sikorsky Aircraft in CT and I lived about a half mile away from him, so I read the book. It made an impression on me few war books have. Brace was drummed out of the Marine Corps in disgrace when he walked away from his crashed plane on a training flight in the States. Eventually he was flying missions for the CIA in Laos where he was captured by the Pathet Lao. He felt he had "a code to keep" as a POW, and his behavior was recognized by other prisoners as outstanding enough that he was the only civilian prisoner of the Vietnam War recommended for a medal. His tale is riveting, and it makes us realize that even if we mess up in life, we can come back and redeem ourselves.
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Title: Five Years to Freedom by James Rowe ISBN: 0345314603 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Why Didn't You Get Me Out? by Frank Anton , Tommy Denton ISBN: 0312974884 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War by Tom Philpott, John McCain ISBN: 0452283167 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War by George J. Veith ISBN: 0440226503 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 by Stuart I. Rochester, Frederick T. Kiley ISBN: 1557506949 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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