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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Oh, ouch.. much much more to that story.
He was offered it because of his Dad. To take it would have had to admit his Gov was wrong, all that bs. By the time this was offered, the torture had stopped. Lots of PoW's got the same offer, and stayed...
It's brotherhood, the standing don't go home first.........
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The way I understood it they still beat him and he even tried to kill himself once after he turned down the release offer. Then about 6-9 months later the torture started to decline and life was not as bad.
Still, to me, political reasoning or not, when you are offered the chance to leave a POW camp and turn it down because others are in front of you in line or because others are hurt worse than you, that is pretty heroic.