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For that reason, his story ends in 1973, when the POWs returned home.
This documentary about a group of U.S. pilots who were held as POWs in the Vietnam War wins excellent marks from most critics: "engrossing and chilling" says Stanley Kauffmann in the New Republic ; Entertainment Weekly 's Gleiberman says, "You emerge shaken, with your perceptions--of Vietnam and of war in general--permanently enlarged."
The editors argue that Milosevic's release of the POWs was a "humane gesture that should be built upon."
His most heroic act of insubordination was declining to be released from maggot-infested captivity ahead of other POWs who were captured before he was--an offer others accepted, in violation of military rules.
Tuesday was "National Sorry Day" in Australia, but not in Japan, which, despite Emperor Akihito's state visit to Britain this week, could not bring itself to apologize unequivocally for the Japanese atrocities inflicted on British POWs in Burma during World War II.