![]() Music has changed, and you weren’t around while that was happening. You don’t pay a lot of attention to music. You cheat on your wife, who you married before your capture. You remain in the Navy, go through physical therapy, take command of a training squadron. You’re unmoored, not sure how to return to American life. While they were happening, you were being tortured. You missed the cultural upheavals of the ’60s. And after five and a half years, when the war finally ended, you returned home to a country that had fundamentally changed. ![]() So instead, you were tortured for years, beaten at regular intervals. But adhering to the military code of conduct, you refused release, since other soldiers had been kept prisoner longer than you. When your father was named commander of all the American forces in the Vietnam war, your captors tried to send you home. You spent two years in solitary confinement. You were interrogated, beaten, denied medical care. The soldiers who took you prisoner crushed your shoulder with a rifle butt and bayoneted you in the groin. ![]() You ejected from your plane, broke two arms and a leg, then landed in a lake and almost drowned. When you were 21 years old, you were flying a bombing mission over Hanoi, and a missile shot your plane down. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. ![]()
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