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Experiences of American Prisoners of War in Vietnam. POW: THE EXPERIENCE
OF AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN VIETNAM Prisoners of War ...
... the things we would learn this year in American history I ... It was a collection of
the experiences of a group ... who were gunned down and taken as prisoners of war. ...
... the things we would learn this year in American history I ... It was a collection of
the experiences of a group ... who were gunned down and taken as prisoners of war. ...
... Plain font is applied to the experiences between men and ... joy of a Vietnamese man
and an American woman in ... as well as the suffering of prisoners, “near Saigon ...
... When the American were bombing and shelling the Viet ... Frank and the other prisoners
that survived were released ... which he traveled sharing his experiences as a ...
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P.O.W.: THE EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN VIETNAM
Prisoners of War (POWs): In international law, term used to designate incarcerated members of the armed forces of an enemy, or noncombatants who render them direct service and who have been captured during wartime.1
This definition is a very loose interpretation of the meaning of Prisoners of War (POWs). POWs throughout history have received harsh and brutal treatment. Prisoners received everything from torture to execution. However, in recent times efforts have been made to reduce these treatments and to get humane treatment for POWs. These attempts include the Geneva Convention of 1949. Unfortunately, during the Vietnam Conflict, these “rules” of war were not always obeyed, as they are now.
The Geneva Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoner of War, signed August 12, 1949, provided restrictions and obligations that a country with captured enemy POWs must meet and abide by. These obligations consisted of feeding, clothing, medical treatment, mail, and delivery of parcels from prisoners.
The official tally of American POWs who were captured by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) during the Vietnam War totaled 766, and of these 114 died while in captivity2. Those that died were many times deprived of both medication and sufficient food or facilities, and were also ravaged by many diseases that affected the Americans.
The guards and cadre refused to accept the fact that adequate food was all that was necessary to reduce if not eliminate the malnutrition and disease among the POW’s. How many times I had heard, “the Front provides adequately for your livelihood.”3
The Vietnamese prison guards and higher ranking officers (cadre) sometimes did not understand why the American prisoners had trouble eating rice and developed “rice rejection” This was more of a mental instability than a physical disease. The prisoners also routinely...
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