POWs

I have a student some of you have heard of named Rick Stone. I have gotten some interesting information on many subjects over the years from him. Recently it's about his experience as a POW in World War Two. There was a commentary circulating on the web about prisoner mistreatment by Col. Bud Day, a Medal of Honor recipient. Col Day wrote about being tortured in a Vietnamese prison camp. Rick read it and this was his response.

Mr Wedlake,
I agree with the remarks uttered by Col Day. Both my brother and I experienced somewhat the same kind of thing in a different conflict.Only the other day my brother told me that he was having to go to the doctor at least once a month to have liquid removed from the scrotum area, this as a result of being kicked repeatedly in the testes. And this happened over 60 years ago.
Rick

There are a few lessons there.

The latest one was about the alleged existance of prison camps being readied in the US, about 800 of them. This is what Rick had to say.

Why am I not surprised.
Governments in in so-called industrialized countries have been keeping lists of people who they consider undesirable for the past 100 years and possibly more.
When the WW- 2 broke out,England rounded up many scholars and academics, most of them in the upper class schools like Eton and Cambridge. They were considered sympathetic to Germany and had been preaching fascism for a long time.
They were put into "lock downs" in the north of Scotland and guarded by troops.
Their treatment was harsh. Not all of them survived until 1945.

Didn't someone say those who could not remember the past are condemned to repeat it?