Why POWs meet such a sorry fate? "You’re here to learn," a Communist Chinese camp official explained to an American POW near the Manchurian Chinese border in early 1951. The POW—a US Army Major Fred A. Smith—was told by the Communist official that his enforced schooling ‘may take one year, ten years, twenty, thirty or even forty years, and some of you may die here. But if you die, don’t worry. We’ll bury you so deep that you won’t stink. ...
