“THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a bad day when you have a door knob on the inside of the door,” says former Navy commander Paul Galanti. Galanti, who spent six and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, is one of the 30 subjects of the photography and essay exhibit Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later touring the country.
The exhibit, now at the Stephen Decatur House Museum in Washington, D.C., was developed by photographer Jamie Howren Quinn and writer Taylor Baldwin Kiland. Kiland, also a former Naval officer, worked on Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign. She says her interest was triggered after hearing a reporter ask McCain about his time in captivity and thinking that “these are compelling stories, but it is also really compelling to see how these men rebuilt their lives–both personally and professionally.”
