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Prisoner of war |
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PRISONER OF WAR. One who has been captured while fighting under the banner
of some state. He is a prisoner, although never confined in a prison.
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Back in 1955, MacKinlay Kantor made the prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville, Georgia, a byword for all of the horrors of the Civil War. He can roll up his right sleeve to show the scars on the arm he almost lost in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. He later died while in a Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. |
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