Letters to the Editor
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Camping
I just had a discussion the other day with a widow of a WWII vet. He had been a POW for about a year, and after his release, he was in a unit that helped liberate one of the other camps.
He said that the only difference was the fact that the other camp had the ovens. The other facilities, and the conditions of the inhabitants, was almost exactly the same. For the rest of his life, he never wanted to be cold or dirty again, having not had a blanket, or privacy, or the ability to get clean.
And as the widow spoke of her husband's POW conditions, I thought about the descriptions of our own camps, and prisons, and our rendered allies' locations that have been well described in the press outside of the US. And there's not much difference.
Sad, isn't it. 60 years later, and the inhumans still bring out the inhumane.