Live and Help Live

In 1993, Peterson (left) visited the "Hanoi Hilton" prison with John McCain. Getty Images

Former POW Pete Peterson went through hell in the years after his capture in Vietnam. Then, in 1997, on the same day he had been shot down so many years before, he revisited the village that had taken him prisoner, this time as the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, a post given him by President Clinton. As a voice of reconciliation, he has been working on making the country a safer place, by encouraging the government to institute helmet laws and through the NGO he founded, The Alliance for Safe Children: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21770163