My Grandfather was a P.O.W. in Italy by the Mussolini regime in the northern Alps during WWII, for a year before they escaped across the northern border countries, Switzerland, France, Spain, then Portugal where he picked up after an 13 month trek. I was the first one to hear this story in the family, while I took him to the V.A. in Albany NY, for chemo treatment. He told me these stories, and told me he that he didn't want this to happen to me, stay out of the military, which I did. It was the reason our family stop speaking Italian in the house (before I was born), and several other things that nobody else in the family understood until I relayed this info. Looking back, he was the bravest person I ever met, he saved six men along that trip, and that is what I remember now, along with what tyrannical governments do to people, in war. That was the Greatest Generation, Men were Men, Women stepped up and kept this country going, doing jobs they never once had done before, and everybody did their jobs, without looking for handouts and freerides.