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Originally Posted by kane
To me what makes him a hero is that they offered to let him go early. He asked if the guys that were captured before him would be going and when he found out they weren't he stayed so that they could go. So to me volunteering to stay when you know you are going to get beat so that others can leave is pretty heroic.
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Oh, ouch.. much much more to that story.
He was offered it because of his Dad. To take it would have had to admit his Gov was wrong, all that bs. By the time this was offered, the torture had stopped. Lots of PoW's got the same offer, and stayed...
It's brotherhood, the standing don't go home first.........