Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.
Quotes about pows (12 Quotes)
The POWs called these rescuers the angels of mercy.
What I object to is criminalizing the war. Enemy combatants, POWs have never had access to federal court before,
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
It's about righting a wrong. Somewhere along the line, someone screwed up. The feeling about the POWs was, 'We owe them.' It's not supposed to be political, but it's kind of hard to review your mistakes.
The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
I think there's something particularly pathetic about me having to appear here on national television and trade polished little phrases with you to defend the honor of the 55,000 people that died there, the 2.5 million of us that served there. I think further that the justification that Hanoi uses for keeping our POWs is that they were engaged in criminal acts there.
I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.
Many POWs went home and were discouraged from talking about their time in Taiwan. Therefore, we must work harder to make sure these men are never forgotten.
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
The encouraging thing is that, after a couple of days, the Yugoslav government has announced that they will be treated as POWs.
American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.