Charlie Plumb reveals how a Navy fighter pilot survived 2,103 days in the Hanoi Hilton by changing one single word in his own head: the ten lines below are the actual tools he used to come out the other side stronger instead of broken

BJ Ganem@BJGanem·Oct 13Charlie Plumb reveals how a Navy fighter pilot survived 2,103 days in the Hanoi Hilton by changing one single word in his own head:He was tortured, isolated, and lied to for six straight years, and the ten lines below are the actual tools he used to come out the other side stronger instead of broken:1. Overconfidence gets you shot down.Before his 75th mission, Plumb believed nothing in the sky could touch him. That belief ended in about ninety seconds.I flew the skies of Vietnam thinking they didn’t have a missile big enough to shoot down Charlie Plumb.Pride is...