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Misty » 20 Jul 2017 7:23 pm » wrote:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNugcPeCZZE

Trump has no room to make those comments but this guy does:

The following is from the biography of the US Marine Corps most decorated fighting man, Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller. From the banana wars, WW2 thru Korea:

“He also dared to speak in a rather critical vein of American prisoners of war, but the force of his logic won his audiences:
“Japanese soldiers aren’t allowed to return home if they are taken prisoner. They have made captivity the “ultimate disgrace for a soldier. It would be a good thing if we thought about our own policy—which is just the opposite. We double the pay of men who are taken prisoner, and we’re the only nation doing that. Not even the British go that far—in fact, they stop the pay of captured men. In a way, Americans make it profitable to be captured, and remove the onus from it.
“I know you soldiers can see the effect of this on morale, when you’re in a hard fight. There is less pressure to resist. Lots of our boys who were captured on Bataan were lieutenants. Under our policy, they will become lieutenant colonels or even colonels when they are released at the end of the war—with their only qualifying”

“experience that of living in a prison compound. Does that make sense to you?
“God knows I have sympathy for a prisoner of war, and I know all of you have, but we’re not following an intelligent line on this. It sounds like a policy dreamed up by inexperienced staff officers to me. From the field commander’s point of view, it is ruinous.”

Excerpt From: Davis, Burke. “Marine!.” Open Road Integrated Media. iBooks.
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