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Very few people know anybody like John McCain, someone who suffered and had his body, yet not his spirit, broken for six years as a POW and who has served his nation.
Kellyanne Conway
Broken
People
Nation
Few
John
Spirit
Someone
John McCain
Had
POW
Like
Know
His
Years
Very
Few People
Six
Anybody
McCain
Body
Who
Suffered
Served
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
Andrew Vachss
Home
Rights
Kid
Kids
POW
Geneva
Geneva Convention
Than
Any
Fewer
Convention
Far
Three days doesn't sound like a very long time, and under normal, everyday circumstances, it's not - but under POW camp conditions, it doesn't take long to wear down a man's sanity.
Brandon Webb
Time
Man
Three
Long
Long Time
Down
Everyday
Circumstances
Wear
Take
POW
Days
Like
Sound
Normal
Camp
Conditions
Very
Very Long Time
Sanity
The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.
Jim Webb
Class
Man
Air Force
Marine Corps
Action
Nine
Air
Later
Corps
One-Man
Purple
POW
Between
Academy
Force
Were
Camps
North
Hearts
North Vietnam
Six
Graduates
Packed
Vietnam
Who
Naval
Brigade
Suffered
Served
Marine
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.
John Yoo
War
Legal
Obey
Protection
Lost
Claim
Responsible
Status
Wearing
Obeying
Laws
Structure
Had
POW
Failing
Taliban
Command
Conduct
Conventions
While
Uniforms
Fighters
Standards
Initial
I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Larry Hovis
POW
Concentration
Equate
Camp
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