Grit to Live Again

(Paperback)

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"Grit to Live Again" shares the experiences of an American soldier and prisoner of war held captive by the Peoples Republic of China during the Korean War. He was held prisoner for approximately 32 months, from early 1951 until the war ended in September of 1953. This book includes the soldier's personal memoirs from that imprisonment, which he wrote 14 years later. When he shared his memoirs with the author 37 years later, he attached a request that they be published after his death. The author has also presented the records from this POW's interrogation records (previously sealed by the US military), the challenges he and his wife had to deal with as he recovered from the abuse in the PRC's POW Camps, and the mistrust expressed by the US upon his repatriation.

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"American soldiers are expected to defy their captors, the clause in Article V "...to the utmost of my ability.", embodies the realities of being a POW of non-Geneva Convention adversaries. Since 1955, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are trained in the theory and application of the Code of Conduct to prepare them, as best possible, should they ever find themselves in a situation like Lt. Colonel Watson's.
Lt. Colonel Watson, Sir, thank you for your service"
Scott Chapel, USMA '86
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Author Bio

Paul Flaherty is a person that the veteran confided his experiences with and promised to share these experiences and memoirs posthumously at the veteran's request