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In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
Annie Jacobsen
Winter
Peace
Released
Paris
Terms
POWs
Were
According
American
Held
Vietnam
Captive
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.
Bo Gritz
Guards
Final
Our
Crossing
Contact
POWs
Came
Effort
Reported
Site
Midnight
Team
Radio
Near
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.
Dana Rohrabacher
War
Government
Prisoner
Our
Tortured
POWs
Were
Iraq
Iraq War
Iraqis
American
Being
Them
Held
Who
Now
Last
Suing
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
John Yoo
Holding
Resources
Detention
Facilities
POWs
Without
Territory
Does
Prisoners
Were
Provide
Interested
Even
Captured
To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture.
Malcolm Nance
Knowledge
Stress
Military
Torture
Tortured
Totalitarian
Variety
Steel
Students
POWs
Because
Blood
Historically
American
Duress
Former
Regimes
Themselves
Paid
Used
Help
Captivity
Technique
Techniques
You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women, Mexicans, Muslims, Asians, African Americans, former POWs, the media and, to get just a bit more specific, 'The Post.'
Richard Cohen
You
Creative
Women
Post
Parents
Bit
Muslims
Admit
More
Disabled
He
Dead
POWs
Insulted
Trump
Mexicans
Get
American
Endlessly
Just
African
African Americans
Former
Asians
Media
Specific
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.
Wilfred Burchett
Surrender
Whatever
Living
Immediately
Ensure
Muster
Could
Had
Come
Terms
POWs
Were
Camp
Conditions
Improved
Authority
Officially
Being
Bluff
Japanese
Living Conditions
Necessary
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