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Movie Review
Return with Honor. Prod. by Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders. Sanders & Mock/American Film Foundation, 1998. 102 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)
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After the Korean War, many U.S. leaders worried that American troops held as prisoners of war by Communist North Koreans and Chinese had not sufficiently resisted their captors' efforts at indoctrination. This resulted in a sharply articulated code of conduct for Americans who might be held as prisoners in future wars. Service personnel, especially air crews, in the U.S. war in Vietnam were the first to be held to the rigorous standard of "name, rank, and serial number only" (with date of birth) and to the rejection of special favors that were not accorded to all. How the Americans taken as POWs (prisoners of war) in the Vietnam War dealt with capture, captivity, resistance, and return to the United States is the subject of Return with Honor. |
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