Grueling months of torture and starvation in prison camps haunt former POWs today
By Deborah Wolfe, The Lake Today
Memorial Day is traditionally the day America honors its fallen heroes. Rows of flags wind through the twisting lanes of cemeteries while veterans across the nation stand at attention as the mournful cry of taps is carried across the wind.
Though the pomp and circumstance characteristic of the day is intended to be a time of remembrance for the heroes we have lost, we sometimes forget many of the fallen got back on their feet and rose again to fight another day.
An estimated 19,000 ex-POWs currently live in America. Considered to be the “lucky ones,†these stalwart warriors braved arduous marches, torture and starvation to return home in celebration and occasionally scorn.
Though the pomp and circumstance characteristic of the day is intended to be a time of remembrance for the heroes we have lost, we sometimes forget many of the fallen got back on their feet and rose again to fight another day.
An estimated 19,000 ex-POWs currently live in America. Considered to be the “lucky ones,†these stalwart warriors braved arduous marches, torture and starvation to return home in celebration and occasionally scorn.
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