Yet Another Voice

by Norman A. McDaniel

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801589983
• ISBN13: 9780801589980
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

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Good Orderly Direction in a Communist P.O.W. Camp!

Written in 1975, Norman A. McDanel's "Yet Another Voice" was his catharsis at making sense of his experiences of enduring seven years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 Although he endured severe physical and mental torture meted out by sadistic captors, e.g. Ho Chi Minh's cruelest jailers, McDaniel went to great lengths within the pages of this book to explain how his unshakeable faith in God and his acceptance of the Holy Scripture's promises prepared him to endure an ordeal that many of his fellow P.O.W's caved in under. This same creed embedded in McDaniel's belief system continued to sustain him in what McDaniel insisted was equally critical and in some respects more trying, which was his reacclimation and readjustment to his normal life, his wife and children and life in general in a democratic society after being released during "Operation Homecoming" on February 12, 1973. Within the pages of this book McDaniel explains to the reader how during his incarceration (1966 to 1973) when life seemed bleak and hopeless, he acquired coping strategies that preserved his sanity. Altogether, he spent 2,399 days in captivity. McDaniel believed that he couldn't keep what he had unless he gave it away. On that note, he inculcated his beliefs to his fellow suffering P.O.W's, thus strengthening each other's faith. This knowledge of the Lord, McDaniel maintains, can be applied to anyone's situation, no matter how trying. While not necessarily as dramatic as being a P.O.W., McDaniel teaches the reader how valuable early religious training and knowledge of the Bible's messages of hope can be when one is in a precarious, life or death situation. Norman McDaniel was born in Cumberland County, North Carolina, in 1937. Going through the ROTC program at North Carolina A & T University and receiving his bachelor's degree in engineering, he was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force in 1959. With stops in Texas and Mississippi, he learned electronic warfare, combat crew training on a B-52 bomber as well as how to be a sub-systems manager on a F-111 fighter. Shortly after America's role in the Vietnam War escalated in March of 1966, McDaniel began flying combat missions on a Douglas EB-66C "Skywarrior" as an Electronic Warfare Officer. McDaniel's unit was part of the 41st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron flying out of Takhli Royal Thi Air Force Base in Thailand. McDaniel morbidly remarks that the bad joke before departing was as follows: "We probably won't get back from this one, so I'll say goodbye now, Nice knowing you, Mac. This exchange had become a normal occurrence during our walks to the airplane on our previous 10 or 15 combat missions, and the comments were directed primarily to me. I'd say, "You guys shouldn't joke like that. What would you be saying if you really believed that we wouldn't get back from this mission? There would be smiles and chuckles, and one of them would be quick t