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They called him “The Incredibly Stupid One.” Douglas Hegdahl, a 20-year-old Navy sailor, survived captivity in the Hanoi Hilton by pretending to be slow, illiterate, and harmless. While guards underestimated him, he memorized the names, ranks, and details of 256 American POWs by setting them to the tune of Old MacDonald. When he was released in 1969, he walked off the plane carrying proof that hundreds of missing soldiers were alive. Families got answers. Conditions improved. Lives were saved. H
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"When Navy sailor Douglas Hegdahl was captured during the Vietnam War in 1967 and dragged into the notorious Hanoi Hilton prison, he made a split-second decision that would alter the course of hundreds of lives. He would play dumb. Not just a little slow. Full-blown, helpless, harmless fool. Hegdahl acted confused, clumsy, simple-minded. He stumbled over his words. He pretended not to understand basic instructions. He smiled vacantly when guards barked orders. His captors ate it up. They mocked
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