South Dakotan Douglas Brent Hegdahl, who’d never seen the ocean before joining the Navy in the midst of the Vietnam War, had somehow fallen from the ship. Just 20 years old, he survived hours in ...

Douglas Brent Hegdahl—“Doug” to all his friends and family—was born on September 3, 1946, in Clark, South Dakota, to Abe Hegdahl and Edythe Serene Herigstad, both second-generation ...

human rights activist Douglas Hegdahl performed an unusual tribute to his former fellow prisoners of war in Vietnam: Hegdahl sang the names of over 200 of his comrades to the tune of "Old ...

Doug Hegdahl, pictured in captivity around Christmastime in 1968, was serving with the Navy on a warship off the coast of Vietnam in 1967 when he fell overboard – paving the way for him to ...