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CreekDog

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3. say whatever you gotta say to stay alive, that's your job as a POW

Reply to kemah (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2014, 04:29 PM

Jun 2014

your government's job, our job, is to go and get you and bring you home safely and not worry about what you had to do to not be killed or tortured by your captors.

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How to survive being a Japanese POW during WWII [View all] kemah Jun 2014 OP

my uncle survived years of POW camp in the Philippines. grasswire Jun 2014 #1

Wow. theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #4

The Japanese treatment of POWs in WWII was absolutely abhorrent. Warren DeMontague Jun 2014 #2

soul sickening grasswire Jun 2014 #6

say whatever you gotta say to stay alive, that's your job as a POW CreekDog Jun 2014 #3

your recommendation has a problem. grasswire Jun 2014 #5

there's a problem with your statement CreekDog Jun 2014 #7