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Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. dies at 89
Friday, March 28, 2014 17:27
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Via WiscoDave
A man among men. Rest in peace, hero.
Jeremiah A. Denton Jr., a retired Navy rear admiral and former U.S. senator who survived nearly eight years of captivity in North Vietnamese prisons, and whose public acts of defiance and patriotism came to embody the sacrifices of American POWs in Vietnam, died March 28 at a hospice in Virginia Beach. He was 89.
The cause was complications from a heart ailment, said his son Jim Denton. Adm. Denton was a native of Alabama, where in 1980 he became the state’s first Republican to win election to the Senate since Reconstruction.
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Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/03/jeremiah-denton-jr-dies-at-89.html
