"Portraits of Patriots" - American EX-Prisoners of War
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As a little boy, I used to ask my grandfather and my father, “How did you survive the War?”
They would get a distant look on their faces and slowly begin to tell me their experiences in the wars. Being excited about history, I would ask them to go into more details about the wars, and I wondered what it was like to have experienced what they experienced. Some details they avoided, and as I grew older I kept after them to re-tell the stories but with more facts. I have never stopped asking, not even with these American EX-Prisoners of War because I really don’t know if I could have survived such ordeals.
These are “Portraits of Patriots” a book project by Chester Simpson.