Former POW tells his story

[dhermann1]

Former POW Benedict Klinshaw on National POW/MIA Day.
This is just a short clip from the Buffalo News. It's a simple and straightforward story. But amazing. (I hope the link works!)
Klimshaw was a prisoner of the Germans for 14 months.
http://video.buffalonews.com/player/index.php?id=1673

 

[Peacoat]

He deserves to make 100. Thanks.

 

[kampkatz]

That gentleman was truly a patriot. Thanks for sharing.

 

[amynbebes]

I'll have to watch this at home. Years ago my dad did a vhs interview/story telling of both my great uncle and my grandfather recounting their stories of being POWs of the japanese for 3.5 years. I can't bring myself to watch it but I know that it's fascinating.

 

[Miss sofia]

My Grandad was a pow in Poland for about three years, so i found that very poignant and moving to watch. He was always stoical about it, although he did stress that he was well treated on the whole and they were fairly lax at the last camp he was sent to. The only downsides he ever mentioned was the postcards he got to send home to my grandma, some of which he could only tick a box on to say he was ok and well fed, and that pained him alot and the fact that the russians liberated them and killed nearly all the people in the village near the camp, and my grandpa had got to know a particular family quite well as he was allowed to work on their farm and never really knew if any of them survived.