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  Jeremiah A. Denton III, lawyers in Virginia Beach, VA, Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jeremiah Denton took the case and, in a nationally noted first-of-its-kind case, federal court ruled the parents could sue for return of the embryo and it was promptly released.
A decade before "Tailhook," Jeremiah Denton brought one of the state's first sexual harassment cases against a CEO on behalf of a single mom secretary smart enough to lodge a micro cassette tape recorder in her stocking before being summoned to her boss' private office.
But Jeremiah Denton proved the actual cause of the accident was a defect in a fuel control unit a 70th of an inch in length, which had existed since the overhaul of the engine some years earlier.
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 Jeremiah Denton - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Denton is best known for the 1966 North Vietnamese television interview he gave, as a prisoner, in Hanoi.
In 1980, Denton ran as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat from his home state of Alabama and achieved a victory over Democrat James E. Folsom Jr.
The Navy Cross is presented to Jeremiah A. Denton, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam from February 1966 to May 1966.
www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Jeremiah_Denton   (715 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: When Hell Was in Session: Books: Jeremiah A. Denton,Ed Brandt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Denton's amazing courage and ingenuity by blinking his eyes to spell out the word "TORTURE" (in Morse Code) during a filmed interview is one of the most incredible events of the American POW chapter of the Viet Nam War.
Denton's (and the rest of the Ameican POWs) ability to maintain sanity while suffering through such conditions is a testament to the American spirit, and it makes one think deeply about what it means to be an American.
Denton's account of his years as a POW in Viet Nam is the most compelling I have read.
www.amazon.ca /When-Hell-Session-Jeremiah-Denton/dp/0966059727   (791 words)

  
 Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1976 Denton’s Vietnam experience was chronicled in the book When Hell Was in Session, and in an NBC movie of the same title, which won the 1979 Peabody Award.
In 1983, Denton founded the National Forum Foundation dedicated to the concept of One Nation under God, the institution of the family, welfare reform, and peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs.
Denton currently serves as President of the National Forum Foundation and lectures on national and international affairs.
www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/01bios/denton01.htm   (479 words)

  
 Spirit of America
Denton's name first came to the attention of the American public in 1966, during a television interview arranged by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi.
Denton was released on February 12, 1973, when he again received international attention as the spokesman for the first group of POWs returning from Hanoi to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.
Denton was advised that as the senior POW onboard, he might be expected to say something on behalf of the group upon arrival.
www.spiritofamerica.net /site/who/197   (897 words)

  
 One-to-One: "A Jeremiah for Our Times"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jeremiah Denton was released on February 12, 1973, along with the first wave of freed POW’s.
Jeremiah Denton was also a pioneer in revitalizing and promoting abstinence education nationwide.
Furthermore, Denton and his team see clearly that the way to change public policy is not by brute legal struggle, but by reaching people’s hearts and minds directly with the message of the truth.
www.csmpublishing.org /Pages/adventures_fall02.html   (1419 words)

  
 Bio, Denton, Jeremiah A.
Denton, a retired Navy rear admiral, former Alabama senator and ex-prisoner of war, was in Fayetteville this week, where he met with an international humanitarian aid advisory group that bears his name.
Denton is a stately man, with prominent eyebrows and a ready smile.
During his captivity, Denton stayed in prisons and prison camps nicknamed the "The Hanoi Hilton" and "The Zoo." The worst place Denton stayed was a prison named "Alcatraz." It was reserved for American captives who were considered rebels and instigators, dangerous because of their strong will and ability to influence others.
www.pownetwork.org /bios/d/d053.htm   (1398 words)

  
 JEREMIAH A. DENTON - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED
On July 18, 1965, Navy Commander Denton was leading a group of twenty-eight aircraft from the USS Independence in an attack on enemy installations near Thanh Hoa when he was shot down and captured by local North Vietnamese troops.
Denton was released on February 12, 1973, three weeks after the war ended.
Denton represented Alabama as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1981-1987, the only retired Admiral or General ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2003/pow/JEREMIAH_A_DENTON.htm   (270 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jeremiah Denton
Denton attended McGill Institute and Spring Hill College and graduated from the United States Naval Academy (where he was a classmate of Jimmy Carter) in 1946.
Denton graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College and the Naval War College, where his thesis on international affairs received top honors by earning the prestigious President's Award.
While serving as a pilot in the Vietnam War, Denton was shot down and captured on July 18, 1965.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton   (766 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Jeremiah Denton
Vietnam veteran (and former POW) Admiral Jeremiah Denton was prevented from speaking before the California Assembly on Independence Day 2004.
Admiral Jeremiah Denton is a hero not because he was politician, but like all the other men and women of the Armed Forces, because he defended the ideals set forth with America's independence.
Denton on Monday in a Fourth of July ceremony.
www.snopes.com /politics/religion/denton.asp   (1817 words)

  
 Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Prayer and covert communication were the biggest weapons we had," declared Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., former prisoner of war.
Denton was released on 12 February 1973 and later chronicled his experience in his 1976 book, When Hell Was in Session.
Denton's many military and civilian decorations and awards include the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Navy League's John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational Leadership, and the Poverello Medal for exemplary Christian life.
www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/02bios/denton02.htm   (452 words)

  
 The Hoya | Former Vietnam War Prisoner Discusses Imprisonment, Political Changes in U.S.
Denton said he later paid for this action of defiance, as his captors attempted to break him with excruciating torture.
Denton also made a lengthy attack on the prevalence of what he said were casual attitudes toward sex in the United States.
Denton said that the best solution for widespread poverty around the world is for wealthy nations to donate their surplus goods to less developed countries.
www.thehoya.com /news/120304/news9.cfm   (850 words)

  
 Jeremiah Denton Addresses Graduating Seniors at 26th Commencement
Over the next seven and a half years he was detained as a prisoner-of-war and, as a senior officer in command, subjected to the worst kind of treatment.
Denton commended the graduates for devoting their lives to learning and the study of truth.
Denton told the graduates, who hail from 22 states, Canada, and Bulgaria, that he was deeply proud of his association with the College.
www.thomasaquinas.edu /news/newsletter/2000/summer/commencement.htm   (499 words)

  
 Cummins Family - Who Is Jeremiah Denton?
Denton is widely regarded as an ultraconservative Republican and member of the religious right who is opposed to the separation of church and state; and is founder of an organization the Baltimore Sun calls "an ad-hoc umbrella organization of fundamentalist Christian groups...
Denton is way too partisan and controversial to be an appropriate speaker at a patriotic event that all members of the Assembly wanted to observe.
As you may know, Admiral Denton was a Navy pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 8 years in a Vietnamese prison.
www.i-magery.com /archives/2004/09/who_is_jeremiah.html   (2437 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: California GOP: Democrats shunned war hero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jeremiah Denton at Clark Air Force Base in 1973 after 8 years in a North Vietnamese prison.
Denton was a Navy pilot who spent eight years in a Vietnamese prison after being shot down during the war.
Denton said he fears partisan attacks on the U.S. mission and troops in Iraq and Afghanistan sound too familiar to what he experienced in Vietnam.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39266   (688 words)

  
 Admiral Jeremiah Denton Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1983, Senator Denton served as an observer of the El Salvadoran election and as a key advisor to President Reagan on the successful effort to stop the Nicaraguan Communist aggression in Central America and to replace the Communist government in Nicaragua with a free government headed by Madame Chamorro.
Also, in 1983, Denton founded the National Forum Foundation, NFF, (now known as the Admiral Jeremiah Denton Foundation), dedicated to issues regarding the concept of peace through strength, One Nation under God, the institution of the family, welfare reform, and peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs.
Senator Denton is married to the former Jane Maury.
dentonfoundation.org /biography.htm   (1420 words)

  
 Conservative Book Club: When Hell Was In Session by Jeremiah A. Denton Jr.
Jeremiah Denton gave the outside world its first direct evidence of torture in North Vietnam prison camps - he blinked in Morse code the word torture during a TV interview.
But for Denton, the nightmare really began long before, on July 18, 1965, when he was shot down flying a combat mission over North Vietnam.
CDR Jeremiah Denton (later Admiral Denton) was my Commanding Officer in the early 1960s.
216.7.14.134 /products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=C4979   (524 words)

  
 Eyewitness
Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., was shot down while leading an air attack on a military installation in North Vietnam.
Denton’s one-word report, delivered in Morse code, was the first clear confirmation received by U.S. Intelligence that American POWs were, in fact, being tortured.
An excerpt from the original recorded media is available in the Flash version of this exhibit.
www.archives.gov /exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=8   (414 words)

  
 Jeremiah Denton Biography
eremiah Denton was one of the best-known American soldiers to be captured by North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
After his release in 1973, Denton wrote When Hell Was in Session, a gripping account of his years in captivity.
Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., was born on July 15, 1924, in Mobile, Alabama.
history.enotes.com /vietnam-war-biographies/denton-jeremiah   (175 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: War hero, ex-senator asks Bush to save cross
Former POW and U.S. senator Jeremiah Denton has requested that President Bush authorize the federal government to take over the site of a historic San Diego cross scheduled to be removed by a judge's order.
Denton, a retired Navy rear admiral, spent nearly eight years as a POW in Vietnam.
Denton has described how he clung to the only possession he had as a POW, a cross woven of bamboo strips given to him by a fellow prisoner.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50859   (813 words)

  
 TIME.com: An Admiral from Alabama -- Jun. 8, 1981 -- Page 1
Liberals and civil libertarians are worried about groups that Denton may try to investigate as part of the "disinformation" conspiracy, such as antinuclear organizations and a Washington-based liberal think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies.
Denton does not use McCarthy's ambush tactics, and unlike McCarthy, he is plainly sincere.
Denton ran in order to speak his deepest beliefs as a patriot, a Roman Catholic and a father of seven, and he refuses to compromise them now.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,922541,00.html   (675 words)

  
 Article By: Jeremiah Denton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
First, let's make certain we know exactly who Jeremiah Denton is, because in our world today, Americans who have given so much for their country...
Denton was the POW who blinked the word "torture" in Morse code when the North Vietnamese tried to use him for propaganda.
What a man this Denton is, with his lifetime of service to his country and to the less fortunate amongst us.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1222098/posts   (1335 words)

  
 AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
Retired Navy Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton of Mobile, a prisoner of war for seven years and seven months in Vietnam, will be inducted into the Alabama Military Hall of Honor during a ceremony Friday.
Denton, who was a leader of other POWs in Hanoi, later became a U.S. senator from Alabama.
Following the release of the POWs in 1973, Denton was chosen to speak first on their behalf.
www.aiipowmia.com /inter23/in311003denton.html   (471 words)

  
 Remarks at a Campaign Rally for Senator Jeremiah A
As Bill Dickinson, Sonny Callahan, and Jerry Denton know, Congress is still in session, and there's no telling what they're up to while the four of us are away.
Now that Jerry Denton is in the Senate, courage and patriotism continue to distinguish all that he does.
Prior to the President's remarks, he attended a reception for major donors to Senator Denton's campaign at the center.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1986/091886c.htm   (2257 words)

  
 Thomas More Law Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jeremiah Denton was subjected to severe torture during his nearly eight years as a POW.
Upon retirement from the Navy, Denton was elected to the U.S. Senate, the first Republican ever elected by the popular vote to represent Alabama.
Denton has spoken widely on the need to restore America's founding principles by adopting laws and policies that reflect obedience to the will of God.
www.thomasmore.org /advisoryboard.html   (911 words)

  
 Remarks at a Fundraising Luncheon for Senator Jeremiah Denton in Birmingham, Alabama
Jeremiah Denton knows from experience what communism means.
For almost 8 years, Jeremiah Denton endured the inhuman trials and tortures of North Vietnamese prison camps, but his faith and the love of his family and country not only gave him the courage to survive but to alert the world of the horrors of the Vietnamese gulag.
I think Jeremiah Denton said it best when, after almost 8 years of unimaginable suffering and hardship, he stepped from that plane and onto his home soil.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1985/60685b.htm   (2777 words)

  
 POINT OF NO RETURN-WHO'S KERRY?
The Admiral Jeremiah Denton Foundation is a non-profit,
Jeremiah Denton a Vietnam Veteran and Prisoner of War is a retired Navy admiral who served in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1987.
Knowing that I served in the U.S. Senate with John Kerry and that, like him, I am a veteran of the Vietnam War, many people have asked me what I think of him, particularly now that he's the apparent presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
members.aol.com /viperash50/denton/denton.html   (901 words)

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