War Captivity Quotes

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.

I had received better treatment from the Indians of St. Francis then I have ever heard of for prisoners of war in any civilization

During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.