George J. Foxx Knihy

The Flag is the true story about Steve Kiba, Radio Operator on an unarmed B-29 during the Korean War. He graphically details the horrors that began with his being shot down over North Korea and being captured and ended almost 32 months later with his release from a political prison in Peking, Red China. Steve vividly takes us from prison to prison on a "virtual reality" journey through the Red Chinese gulag system. He shares his feelings of fear, anxiety, frustration, despair, abandonment, and hopelessness. His story allows us to endure vicariously the POW/MIA experience: unending hours of solitary, excruciating pain of seemingly endless interrogation and re-education sessions, the constant pain of hunger and unquenched thirst, and the devastating effects of prolonged sleep deprivation. Coupled with the pains of deprivation, we share his physical, emotional, and mental distress of living in utter filth, being denied even the most basic sanitary and hygienic needs, being daily threatened never to be released, and suffering the continuous barrage of false accusations: violating Red Chinese airspace, working for the CIA, and engaging in germ warfare. In October 1954, Steve was judged guilty of war crimes, and in November he was sentenced to four years imprisonment.

Have you ever been raped or robbed? How about cheated out of something special and expensive? What about discriminated against, threaten, and violated until you were helpless and hopeless, and when you went for lawful help, the Justice Department which is supposed to protect people, instead protects the culprits. It's like living a nightmare, day after day, year after year for 12 years never to wake up. The horrors of disbelief and hurt, anger to forgiveness, deceit and obstruction, and justice being delayed and denied... Well, I hope you never find yourself in this situation, because you may not survive. In this nightmare, nothing or no one seems to come to your aid even after fighting in federal judicial system before 161 judges in 28 venues even the U.S. Supreme Court eight times, just to be ignored. What a horrible feeling! The feelings only become more horrible when you know who the 'Evil Demon' in the nightmare is -the United States Navy. Yes, the Navy at the Crossroads.