It's weird how he will tell other people his story but he is very reluctant to tell me. One of the things he had to endure was being cut with a razor 500 times, all over, and being dunked in vomit and rolled in excrement, and that was just the morning wake up. The rest is just too gruesome for me to write.
Yeah man, and to think that this was everyday. For every week. For years on end. You have to consider that this is probably not a part of his past which he enjoys repeating to his family, but if his story helps a future POW survive, it is worth telling.
It makes you seriously contemplate at which point one would simply come to the conclusion of Self Delete to escape the torture. The emotional and psychological gymnastics these guys must have gone through cannot be perceived by a regular person.
The worst most of us were put through was four days without food and marches up to fifty miles total during the middle of winter, followed by a simulated prison camp where we were constantly open-hand slapped and put in small dark cells. Even that was almost too much for some people.
Do you mind dropping his name? I understand if you don't wish to.
