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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.
The editors argue that Milosevic's release of the POWs was a "humane gesture that should be built upon."
For that reason, his story ends in 1973, when the POWs returned home.
NBC's David Bloom, recounting how McCain had been "brutally and repeatedly tortured," quoted a commander who said of McCain, "There was no tougher resister among POWs."
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."