Jeremiah Denton

Jeremiah Denton

Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. (born July 15, 1924) is a retired United States Navy Rear Admiral and a former U. S. Senator from the U.S. state of Alabama. He spent almost eight years as a Prisoner of War (POW) in North Vietnam and later wrote a book which became a film about those experiences.

Read more about Jeremiah Denton:  Military Career, Prisoner of War (POW), Post Captivity, Political Career

Famous quotes containing the word jeremiah:

    “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.

    A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.