recognition for "Berga Slave Soldiers"

[Timothy McGuire]

I didn't see this on the list, so I thought I would post it.  The
father of a classmate of mine was one of the former prisoners being
recognized.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/08/berga.recognition/index.html

Quote:
 The general even addressed documents that many of the Berga survivors
signed before they were sent back home to the States. "The interests
of American prisoners in the event of future wars, moreover, demand
that the secrets of this war be vigorously safeguarded," it says.

The survivors believed the document meant they were never to speak
about their Berga experience. "That was not our intent at all, but we
screwed that up," Boles said. "What the intent of the documents was,
for those who had been POWs, not to talk about escapes, people who had
assisted them, people who had helped them. Our inability to explain
that correctly was, therefore, misunderstood by them."

He added, "What they went through didn't need to be kept a secret."