McCain was released in 2628, along with his fellow POWs.
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Or his low esteem for American POWs because they were captured?
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Trump on POWs: "He's not a war hero," Trump said of Sen.
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She called our POWs hypocrites and liars, and called their torture 'understandable.
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Those who utilized POWs were, by and large, satisfied with the soldiers' work.
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Trump insulted POWs, attacked Gold Star families, & says PTSD is for the weak.
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McCain refused because it would dishonor his father and demoralize the other American POWs.
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A police headquarters holding a small group of American POWs sat next to the school.
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Trump attacks: POWs, Mexicans, Muslims, disabled reporter, military & intel officers, Gold Star Parents, John Lewis.
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The POWs included the crews of two downed American bombers -- the Lonesome Lady and the Taloa.
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When the release came, the POWs came home to great fanfare in three large release groups.
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He's ridiculed women, pandered to evangelicals, insulted Hispanics and military POWs, yet they still voted for him.
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John McCain's sacrifice and the sacrifices made by all our POWs and MIAs must never be forgotten.
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Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion (1937) is built around a very idiosyncratic situation with pilots and POWs.
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Rumors swirled that Fonda had given secret messages from the POWs to their captors, which was proven untrue.
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I think the divorce rates among the POWs were extraordinarily high so in hindsight it's probably not unexpected.
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Are any vets groups going to take the lead and insist he apologize to McCain and other POWs?
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Later, at the Pentagon, he had worked with the Chinese government to search for missing Korean War POWs.
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Trump, who mocked American POWs because they were captured and then falsely bragged that his support increased 7 percent because of his condescension toward prisoners of war, told a crowd at the Washington rally of Rolling Thunder — which views support for POWs as a patriotic mission — that he is their guy.
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And that's before you even turn to his deranged attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, women, the disabled, POWs and more.
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When he heard of the plight of the Moroccan POWs in 6900, he publicly and repeatedly demanded their release.
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"He has also targeted immigrants, African-Americans, Latinos, people with disabilites, POWs, and Muslims and so many others," Clinton said.
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The Spanish officials who found Sitek repatriated him to Germany, where he survived the war (as did the German POWs).
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The ordeal, he insisted, didn't impact him the way it did so many other former POWs from the Vietnam War.
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"Many years ago, when I was imprisoned in North Vietnam, there was an attempt to rescue the POWs," McCain said.
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They got together in made this motorcycle in honor of the 37 men from Wisconsin who were MIA or POWs.
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He refused to leave the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" until POWs who had been housed in captivity longer were released first.
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On top of that, the younger Reimann once complained to a German mayor that the POWs weren't working hard enough.
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But McCain refused to leave ahead of the other POWs who'd been captured first: Try to imagine it was you.
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World War Two veterans, some of them former prisoners of war (POWs), gathered in Thailand's western province of Kanchanaburi to remember the thousands of POWs and Asian laborers who died when Japanese occupying forces put them to work on the infamous "death railway", a supply route to Japanese troops in the then Burma, now Myanmar.
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" McCain was referring to Trump's jaw-dropping comment last year on POWs, when he said, "I like people that weren't captured.
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McCain, I was deeply moved by his capacity to forgive, especially concerning his captors and their despicable treatment of our POWs.
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During a visit to the infamous prison, McCain said he could not forgive the jailers who mistreated and killed fellow POWs.
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The child POWs — at once ex-soldiers and orphans of the Third Reich — pose an intriguing tangle for the viewer's sympathies.
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"Many years ago, when I was imprisoned in North Vietnam, there was an attempt to rescue the POWs," McCain told NBC News.
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Poles would be "exposed to every horror that modern conflict could devise", including indiscriminate aerial bombing, and massacres of civilians and POWs.
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They closed their eyes and communicated with pfffffffts and pows and za-za-zas , sounding like a hip-hop Rube Goldberg machine.
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Female Marines who responded to the survey cited increased risk for sexual assault and that enemy forces would target women as potential POWs.
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John had friends from his early Navy years, POWs, congressional colleagues, people who'd worked for him and friends he'd made along the way.
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Many of these POWs were released over the course of the following week, however some were summarily executed and others still remain missing.
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What Hiroshima taught the world Lost American lives Today, we know 12 American POWs died as a result of the A-bomb in Hiroshima.
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"You can't have a guy who's insulted POWs and attacks a Gold Star mom and has called our troops and veterans weak," Obama said.
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And what he has said about African-Americans and Latinos, about Muslims, about POWs, about immigrants, about people with disabilities, he's never apologized for.
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But memories are fading and evidently their stories, such as those of the eight Doolittle Raiders who became Japanese POWs, need to be retold.
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The North Vietnamese Army had previously offered McCain his freedom, but he refused, thinking that it would bring shame and demoralize his fellow POWs.
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But due to extreme secrecy and political sensitivity, it wasn't until the 1970s that de-classified U.S. documents verified the presence of American POWs there.
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Donald Trump used John McCain as a punching bag while a presidential candidate, starting with his "I like people who weren't captured" comment about POWs.
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These are the principles that provide hope that our enemies will follow the Geneva Conventions and that American POWs and non-combatants will be safe.
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That historian found the family used Russian citizens and French POWs as forced laborers, and that the Reimanns were early supporters of the Nazi party.
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During the course of the war in eastern Ukraine, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been either captured as POWs or gone missing during the fighting.
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In 2008, when the myth first rose to mainstream attention, PolitiFact reported that no one ever called McCain "Songbird," despite torture so brutal that McCain is permanently unable to lift his arms above his head: George "Bud" Day and Orson Swindle, fellow POWs, told PolitiFact that POWs sometimes were forced to talk when they were tortured, but they tried to tell lies to mislead their captors.
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"What he has said about immigrants and African-Americans and Latinos and people with disabilities and POWs and our military and Muslims and everybody," she explained.
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Ishii Shiro from Soviet prosecutors in return for his sharing results of experiments conducted on live POWs without anesthetic at the infamous Unit 731 in Manchuria.
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Trump isn't going to apologize to McCain and the other POWs, but the rest of us can use this moment to salute their heroism and sacrifice.
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The probe found their company used Russian civilians and French POWs as forced laborers and had donated to the SS even before Hitler came to power.
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These groups of men included the roughly eight million POWs, as well as civilian internees, and the roughly 65 million men who served in the armed services.
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Imagine a commander in chief who looks with disfavor on American POWs because they were captured by our enemy while they were serving courageously serving our country!
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McCain looks at a display of personal belongings of American POWs at the joint POW/MIA archives center in the Vietnam Military History Museum on May 31, 22008.
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Now, the survivors of both places have collected at Maggie's fast-growing community, which includes an entire makeshift prison of Savior POWs and all of Ezekiel's leftover forces.
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While their identities will never be known, one thing is certain: These nine individuals were interlopers — possibly failed raiders or POWs — who met violent ends, a new study finds.
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A full-throttled endorsement of Trump means taking on his litany of transgressions from offensive statements against women, the disabled, immigrants and POWs, to his carousel of policy positions.
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Instead, Henry grabs a semi-automatic firearm that's nearly as large as he is, and goes wandering into the prison cell where about three dozen POWs are locked up.
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In the decades after World War II, when more than 28500,6900 Americans had been POWs, insulting a former POW the way Trump did would have ended any politician's career.
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It is much harder to make up for 18 months of wretched, hateful, bigoted, misogynistic rhetoric that insulted Hispanics, women, Muslims, African Americans, veterans, POWs, our military, and our generals.
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McCain would go on to become an unparalleled advocate for POWs in Congress, and a staunch believer in the central importance of the Geneva Convention and the laws of war.
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Like other American POWs, McCain and Crecca used a complex communication system known as tap code -- tapping out messages on the wall of their cells -- to communicate with each other.
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He was missing for about four months until a Canadian HAM radio operator intercepted a message from the Germans including the locations of POWs from both American and Allied forces.
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McCain's refusal to leave a North Vietnamese prison camp ahead of his fellow POWs—despite almost daily physical torture—made him a living symbol of the fighting man's moral code.
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Here's Mr. Bush on Donald Trump, in an interview with NewsMax Prime: I find it offensive when he insults the disabled, women, Hispanics, POWs, calling them loser cause they got caught.
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" She added: "After spending his entire campaign attacking one group of Americans after another -- immigrants, African-Americans, Latinos, women, POWs, Muslims, people with disabilities -- now his final target is democracy itself.
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"I don't apologize for it because he is a jerk," Bush said Tuesday at a campaign stop in Grinnell, Iowa, saying Trump "disparages" women, POWs, Hispanics, Muslims and people with disabilities.
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He recalled the confusion of the fight, the lack of communications and how he with three other soldiers got lost and turned around while searching towns for German POWs to interrogate.
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At least two scenarios are possible: Either the victims were captured nearby (possibly as part of a failed raiding party ) or they were brought in from farther away as POWs, Meyer said.
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My colleague Matt Yglesias put this skepticism well in a tweet: Maybe Putin is blackmailing Trump with a tape where he mocks POWs and the disabled while confessing to routine sexual assault.
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Bob Dold: One of the first Republicans to oppose Trump, the Illinois representative told WLS May 250: "I will not support Donald Trump," referring to Trump's comments about women, Muslims, Latinos and POWs.
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The Arizona voters who repeatedly elected him to the U.S. Senate had largely never heard of the Polisario Front and the American press rarely, if ever, mentioned the ordeal of the Moroccan POWs.
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But given that there&aposs no evidence that LBK men were captured as POWs, it seems more likely that the victims were apprehended during a raid or farther away from the settlement, Meyer said.
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Also on Thursday, following a terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, Trump tweets a reference to a false story about General Pershing murdering 49 Filipino POWs by shooting them with bullets dipped in pig's blood.
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Best foreign language film "Land of Mine" A movie inspired by true events about a group of young German POWs who are forced to clear landmines in Denmark, in hopes of eventually being sent home.
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But the author also offers a corrective to later Indian accounts that have exaggerated the strength of pro-independence feeling and glorified the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, made up of Indian POWs and defectors.
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In Thailand, two former prisoners of war joined other Australians at Hellfire Pass in Kanchanaburi province, where POWs were forced by the Japanese army to build the infamous Thai-Burma "death railway" in 1942-43.
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The works are notable not only for their harrowing, heartbreaking account of the detonation, but also for the Marukis' choice to prominently include depictions of Korean nationals and American POWs among the dead and dying.
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It should go without saying that Auschwitz—the former Nazi concentration camp where around 1.1 million Jews, Poles, and POWs died—is not a place to stand around and catch stupid virtual goblins on your iPhone.
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While many rank-and-file members are pressuring the Speaker to rally behind Trump, others are still deeply disturbed by the candidate's controversial comments and actions related to Mexicans, Muslims, women, POWs, the disabled and white supremacists.
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JANUARY Arguing about Hitler's management skillsPage: Stalag Luft III murders talk pageWhen: January 13Where: Department of National DefenceAfter a bunch of American POWs escaped a Nazi camp, most of them were caught and murdered at Hitler's request.
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When one of the POWs is allowed to call home, the Army and the CIA decide a rescue mission is warranted, which Gallo and Madani will lead (even though she seems extremely not ready for such a thing).
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Trump, in one of the most crass and vile comments in American political history, said he preferred troops who were never captured over the POWs who endured torture, pain and risk of death in service to our country.
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Fort Gordon was established as Camp Gordon in Georgia during World War II. German and Italian prisoners of war were kept there during the war, and the remains of 22 POWs are buried there, according to the Army.
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Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte have found that those who, like POWs, experience post-traumatic stress and demonstrate that they can not only recover, but learn and grow and become stronger from their traumatic experiences.
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Not limiting their use to the chicken industry, the more than 4,500 POWs worked across the state of Delaware as dishwashers, waiters, grocers, in canneries, and some as garbage men and carpenters who repaired the boardwalk at Rehoboth Beach.
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But it's not only women, and it's not only this video that raises questions about his fitness to be our president, because he has also targeted immigrants, African- Americans, Latinos, people with disabilities, POWs, Muslims, and so many others.
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Serious journalists who cover his attendance at a veterans rally have an obligation to voters, to veterans and to all who were POWs to ask Trump directly whether he still prefers troops who were never captured to those who were.
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Do Republicans running in 2016 favor a commander in chief who disdains heroic American POWs by saying he prefers troops who were never captured, and says he would order American troops to commit torture in violation of the Geneva Conventions and international law?
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Do Republicans running in 85033 favor a commander in chief who disdains heroic American POWs by saying he prefers troops who were never captured, and says he would order American troops to commit torture in violation of the Geneva Conventions and international law?
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"What Trump has been willing to do is say terrible things about women, mock the disabled, disparage minorities, impugn the character of POWs, and go after the Gold Star parents of a fallen U.S. soldier," Flake said in a statement to The Hill.
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You can't have a guy who's insulted POWs and attacks a Gold Star mom, and has called our troops and veterans weak, and cozies up to dictators, and tells our allies we might not stand by their side unless they pay up first.
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He was determined to uncover details of the POWs situation, share the information with their families, and ensure that the American names were placed on the wall of the Hall of Remembrance in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, alongside the tens of thousands of other victims.
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"I have not endorsed Donald Trump ... because of all these incendiary comments over the last year: John McCain and the POWs, the disabled, the Mexicans, the Muslims, the women comments, the David Duke debacle, the Indiana judge, and now the Khan family situation," Dent said.
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Just because Trump may be able to get through an hour-long speech without insulting Latinos, women, Muslims, POWs, Gold-Star families, people with disabilities, immigrants, nursing mothers, our allies and non-white countries does not mean he is suddenly presidential and deserves kudos.
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Before the end of the customary 250 days to honor President Johnson, former first lady Lady Bird Johnson asked Nixon to raise the flags back to full-staff to honor the end of hostilities in Vietnam, and the arrival of the first Vietnam POWs.
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The whole setup is supposed to raise a few different mysteries, like who was the man they rescued, why was it more top secret than usual, what actually happened when they were in Somalia, why is the CIA involved, and can they get the POWs back?
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" President Obama in Miami Thursday delivered the same message: "Anybody who suggests that America should torture people or ban entire religions from entering America or insults POWs or attacks a Gold Star mom ... or talks down about our troops, that's not somebody who's fit to be president.
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When one compares the character of John McCain with anyone else, one finds few men who measure up to the senator and the 85033,800 days of torture, beatings and broken bones that he, and most other American POWs, suffered at the hands of their North Vietnamese captors.
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Couple that with the hostility, disrespect and disdain that Trump has used in speaking about women, African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, people with disabilities, nursing mothers, POWs and countless other Americans, and you definitely have a recipe for disaster brewing in the cauldron of putrid, poisonous political discourse.
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" Strength gained through faith is a principle that the sixth and final article of the Code of Conduct—developed for POWs—reiterates: "I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free.
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I would also suggest that the media professionals covering the event — who often treat Trump more like groupies at an Elvis Presley concert than professional journalists — directly ask Trump whether he is willing to recant, retract and apologize for his insult of American POWs earlier in the campaign.
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And then "Fort Marion Cheyenne Camp X-Ray" is about how after the massacre of the Washita with Custer, when they took the women away to be raped, and they took the men — one of my relatives, Heap of Birds, was one of them — and made them POWs.
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Between 1943 and 1945, backed by the support of the common people and armed with weapons wrested from enemy hands, the Italian resistance undertook a guerrilla warfare campaign against the fascists and their Nazi allies, liberating cities, creating aid networks to help save POWs and Jews, and slaughtering the German invaders.
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