CNN The Situation Room March 25, 2013 21:44:00
Shot down in hanoi the day after christmas 1972. two of cook's crew mates were killed. cook was the only one who didn't eject. he was blown out the back on impact, had both legs shattered below the knee, a broken back, shoulder and elbow, spent a month and a half at the notorious north vietnamese prison the hanoi hilton. this is a picture of him in a motorcycle sidecar being taken to the prison. he says he didn't see the episode of "the amazing race," didn't even know about the memorial in hanoi. but he says this -- >> really it's kind of in poor taste, to me, the fact that lives were lost in ...