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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSomeone sent us an article about this guy, Delwyn O’Connor<\/a>, in Fairfield, California. He attended an event where the Solano County Board of Supervisors welcomed home Vietnam Veterans<\/a>. Delwyn, a Korean War and Vietnam veteran took the opportunity to tell the reporter about his time in Vietnam;<\/p>\n Delwyn O\u2019Connor has lived nearly 49 years in Solano County \u2013 the first 3 1\/2 in the hospital at Travis Air Force Base.<\/p>\n Those years were largely due to the 10 days he was held captive by the North Vietnamese in the summer of 1967, a period in which he was repeatedly tortured before he and eight others were rescued by a joint Navy SEALs operation.<\/p>\n He has lost vision in one eye, had his nose replaced and has had multiple operations because of the injuries he sustained as a prisoner. That also includes a belly wound he suffered prior to being captured, shrapnel that was removed by his fellow prisoners because there was no medical care available.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we got home, three of the prisoners committed suicide because of what they said about us,\u201d said O\u2019Connor, recalling how the treatment they received back in the U.S. caused the breaking point for men who could not be broken by the enemy.<\/p>\n He is the last survivor.<\/p>\n O\u2019Connor, who also served in Army special forces during the Korean War, was joined by more than 50 other Vietnam-era veterans Tuesday when, more than 40 years since the end of the war and in commemoration of the 50 years since the start of the war, the Solano County Board of Supervisors said, \u201cthanks and welcome home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n SEALs must’ve been busy in those days, reading about all of the rescues they affected. But according to DPAA, there were no O’Connors who were prisoners of the Communist Vietnamese;<\/p>\n O’Connor has no Purple Heart Medals for his injuries, if you look closely at the hat in the picture above, you’ll see he’s also wearing a Silver Star…nope, no Silver Star. In the interview, he says that he was in the Army and Special Forces in Korea (he’s also wearing a Special Forces DUI on his cap), but, according to his FOIA, he was in the Navy soon after he turned 18 years old during the Korean War from 1952 – 1955. After his Navy service, he enlisted in the Air Force and he retired in 1982. No Army service, let alone special forces duty.<\/p>\n His FOIA says that he was in Vietnam, at Cam Rahn Bay Air Base – he was a loadmaster and an Air Passenger Specialist – not many of those became POWs.<\/p>\n![\"DPAA](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DPAA-OConnor-442x333.jpg\")
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