We're tickled to death to have the pow wow and the dancers here to continue their heritage and values. They're apart of the community and we've received such a good response that I think this will just get bigger year after year.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
Infantry boot camp was so effective that Dye organized POW simulation exercises as well. We made all the actors take their shoes off, put 'em around their neck and walk 2 miles to the camp, ... In the camp, the actors would only speak Japanese to them -- no English at all -- because we wanted the actors to understand that feeling where you've got somebody screaming at you in Japanese, which I think would be terrifying.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people are left with only open nagging questions what kind of freak has 1,000 pages of medical records
The Geneva Conventions were written precisely to make it difficult for political leaders facing political pressure to suspend basic rights and P.O.W. protections. The moment we let a president say he can determine whether someone is a prisoner of war, other countries are going to start doing it back to us.
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
I know when John was in that POW camp he wasn't sitting around thinking about the wealth of America or the power of America. He was thinking about that moral idea of America,
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.
I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.
There hasn't been a pow wow here before. This is the first one, and it is very important because it brings people here to our facility that is very versatile and can be used for a variety of events.