Thread by @stlplace

They choose China 他们选择中国 2005 via @YouTube || I heard about horrendous Chinese PoW stories in Korean war: both those that chose coming back to China, and those decided going to Taiwan. I think relatively speaking, the American PoWs were lucky. /1

About 10 years ago, I toured DC, and visited the war memorial place near Lincoln Memorial. koreanwarvetsmemorial.org/the-memorial/ || This reminded me some of the readings I had about Korea war. I think I agree with one of the war vet said in the youtube above: that is, war is basically BS. /2

PoWs traditionally were treated worse in China, compared to in the US. I mean the PoWs came back home. But I was a bit surprised some American PoWs were punished after the Korean war, during the McCarthy era. newyorker.com/news/news-desk… /3

This wiki page has the list of all the American and British
"defectors". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A… || Clarence Adams (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_…) left me impression because he is black (black is discriminated both in China and in the US) /4

James Veneris also left me impression. I think he was the only one stayed until death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ven… James is also very much anti-war. His kids moved to the US, and the only thing he asked them is not to join military. || There is Chinese ver 2 news.sina.com.cn/o/2006-03-01/0…

The sina link in previous post / thread did not come through, the correct one: news.sina.com.cn/o/2006-03-01/0… (if you click through the wiki, it should work) /6

While searching for Howard Gayle Adams, I found a paper on James Veneris visited his mom after 25 years (1951 to 1976). news.google.com/newspapers?nid… || It seems Howard lived at least on 2013, btw. expat.com/forum/viewtopi… /7

Btw, Mike Wallace interview questions to Samuel David Hawkins are questionable, to say the least. It sounds like Mike works for Joseph McCarthy #McCarthyism In contrast Mike's son Chris Wallace is much better. Noted Mike smoking while doing interviewing which is likely normal /8