With
respect for then Lt. John McCain who up until 1973 was spending time in
another place, famously called the "Hanoi Hilton".
You will notice here
the spelling of Macao, China. Actually the spelling is Macau but a
Robert Mitchum 1952 film spells the city Macao and it seems my brother
resorted to that version. Thirty seven miles southwest of Hong
Kong during this time in 1975 Macau was considered a territory of Spain much
as Honk Kong was British. In 1976, Lisbon redefined Macau as a "Chinese
territory under Portuguese administration," and granted it a large measure
of administrative, financial and economic autonomy. Portugal and China agreed
in 1979 to regard Macau as "a Chinese territory under (temporary) Portuguese
administration". and preferred to wait until December
1999--the very end of the millennium, two years after the Hong Kong Handover--to
close this chapter of history. Although offered control of Macau in
the 1970s, the Chinese deemed the time "not yet ripe"
Here is a more recent picture of the same building -
Also pictures of Macau Days and Nights
Macao
Edificio do Leal Senado
My brother's last sentences
to me were "I think about you every day", and "Don't worry, I am in good
hands, the same HOSPITAL that John McCain was treated in."
Robert D. Johnson, said
to actually have been a Democrat
Nice to know that even
my brother made mistakes. He addressed the letter to himself.
Of course this was the time that my father was filing grievances with the
U.S. Postal Department and who knows it may have been a PLOY.
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