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Name, Rank and Serial Number: Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and AbroadBy Charles S. Young
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Every day on my way to work I drive by P.S. 8, my local public elementary school, where the POW-MIA flag flies beneath the US flag. These days it seems more like an ironic celebration of Gitmo than any genuine patriotic sentiment, and surely it's a deceptive symbol to show to children. The use of POWs for propaganda and indoctrination, a.k.a. education, turns out to have some history.
Professor Young has done some amazing research and published an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of the Forgotten War, and to the hidden history of our government's political use of prisoners of war in the Cold War.
The story of the war itself is briefly told. On June 25, 1950, forces of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (DPRK) crossed the 38th parallel into the Republic of Korea.... Read More
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