Among the prisoners in Kushner’s POW camp was a tough young marine, 24 years old, who had already survived two years of prison-camp life in relatively good health. Part of the reason for this was the camp commander had promised to release the man if he cooperated. Since this had been done before with the others, the marine turned into a model POW and the leader of the camp’s thought-reform group. As time passed he gradually realized that his captors had lied to him. When the full realization of this took hold he became a
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