From CelebAtheists
Simon is a correspondent for 60 Minutes on CBS.
In a 21-Sep-2003 AP profile of Simon by David Bauder, Simon relates his captivity by Iraqis during the first Gulf War in the Winter of 1991:
His goal was to find his old cell, shut the door, stay there for a day and reflect.
"I am not a religious person — I don't believe in God — but a lot of the time you spend in solitary confinement becomes, in one way or another, spiritual," he said. "And I wanted to recapture some of that."
Simon thought his desire somewhat freakish. In talking to others who had been in similar situations, he found it was common.
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