The Viet Cong tossed United States Air Force First Lieutenant Edward Lee Hubbard into a dingy, 12-square foot cell in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp on July 24th, 1969.Hours later, they tossed another man in the cell — Navy pilot Charlie Plumb.Over the decades, the irony that the Viet Cong had placed the two men together to try and break up familiarity between the prisoners wouldn't be lost on either of them.Both of the men were from Shawnee, Kansas, a small suburb of Kansas City. They'd both gone to the same high school, Shawnee Mission High, just four years apart. Both of them had been captured after their planes were shot down — Hubbard in 1966 and Plumb in 1967.
