I'd leave those judgments to those who've actually been in a POW situation rather than to the arm chair heroes. As long as a POW doesn't endanger others, he should work to survive.
And doing nothing to endanger others is still a very large and difficult responsibility.
That's the question. Did John McCain seal records of men left behind in-order to hide evidence of dishonorable conduct as a POW, and the effect it may have had on his political career?
See the links above. Btw, those records are still sealed.
Well, I have met and heard former POWs. The ones who show up at sympsiums speaking to zctice duty are those who tell thepotetential POWs how and why to behave with honor abd tell how it’s done. For six or seven long years
Never having been in the situation, is it not true that anything of operational value is pretty much void after a relatively short amount of time has passed? In other words, when a guy is missing or known to be captured, anything he knows is considered compromised and plans, codes, or anything along those lines are changed. In that case, talking doesn’t really do any harm. The kind of propaganda in this broadcast, on the other hand, is demoralizing, but I doubt if it does any lasting harm to the war effort. I don’t even like being restrained for a moment, so I don’t know what I’d do.