Audience members listen as retired rear admiral Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. addresses the audience. Audience members listen as retired rear admiral Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. addresses the audience during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon on Sept. 18, 2009. Denton spent 7 years and 7 months as a prisoner of war when he was shot down and captured by North Vietnamese troops in 1965. SHARE: Download: Full Size (0.07 MB) Credit: VIRIN: 503822-U-FNX57-666.jpg Photo Gallery