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| This is the story of Ronald L. Ridgeway whose platoon was massacred in 1968. Along with eight other soldiers —none of whom was identified beyond doubt— he was buried here:  all American Prisoners of War were released. Ronald L. Ridgeway was one of them! This is how he survived his captivity: As he sat alone in his windowless cell beside a wooden bed and the bucket he used for waste, Ridgeway went about creating a “make-believe” life. There was no one to talk to, and he was allowed out only once a day to empty the bucket. So he imagined that he was somewhere else, that he owned a pickup truck, that he had a wife and children, that he would go fishing. It was a mental exercise, he said, and he found that spending three days in his make-believe world would take up a whole day in solitary. |
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