"Nobody would be interested in my side of the story. Nobody would be interested in the truth. The same 'facts' were there for everyone to see and the truth, in this war, was whatever you wanted to make it...I was a disgrace and liability to everyone" (375).
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| Le Ly Hayslip |
From The Norton Book of Woman's Lives by Phyllis Ross
Incarcerated in prison, Hayslip goes through such horrific and traumatic events that for sure impacted her so greatly she even believed she "didn't deserve to live" (375). The pain of being thrown into a cell and being abused with such inhumane torture methods made Hayslip so hopeless and dehumanized, and I can not even imagine how hard it is to relive that through her writings.
Once she had gotten out of the Thai prison it was then in which the war escalated and she found herself in another situation of getting tied up by officers and once again tortured by having ants eat honey off of them. Even after all of the torture and lack of freedom, she stayed strong which in turn led her to her freedom in the future. I find her to be one of the mentally and physically strongest women to have made it out alive and able to share her experience. With all of her self-doubt and setbacks, she managed to persevere and came out as a stronger person, which I strongly admire.
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