Letter: Prisoners of war

On June 12, I read two articles in the Daily News about prisoners of war. The first article was about two Saudi prisoners and one Yemeni prisoner committing suicide, hanging themselves by nooses made from sheets and other clothing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The second article was about Bill Hensen, a former corporal in the U.S. Army who spent three years as a prisoner of war in a northern mountainous area in Pyok-Dang, Korea.

Bill said “at the camp we would lay on the floor and use our own body heat to keep warm. In the middle of the night, someone would yell ‘shift’ and everyone would roll from left to right because the floor was stone and you’d get sore. If the guy next to you didn’t move, you knew he was dead.”

Sheets usually cover some kind of mattress and the weather is warm in Cuba, yet there are some who feel the prison is inhumane and want the prison shut down.

Americans must never forget what our soldiers have been put through as POWs during all of the previous wars — Stalag Luft 1, the Bataan Death March and Hanoi Hilton.

Not to mention the atrocities of this war — the dragging of burned, mutilated bodies of four American contractors through the streets, and the beheading of Nick Berg, another American contractor.

Patty Malaspina/Naples