Burlington Township Man Given Medal 66 Years After Capture

A New Jersey man has been given the federal Prisoner of War Medal 66 years after he was captured as an 18-year-old soldier in Germany.

The medal was created in 1995, but Alan Hayden says he only recently learned about it.  U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith awarded it to the 85-year-old former camera salesman in a ceremony at his retirement home in Burlington Township Monday.

Smith describes Hayden's time in captivity as "64 days in Hell."

Hayden was captured by German forces in Alsace-Lorraine in February 1945 and freed by Americans more than two months later.