"Pat Avery is a passionate writer.  Believing that 'Support Our Troops' isn't just a car magnet shaped like a ribbon, she set about recording the stories of those who went to war in our name...In particular, the Korean War seems to have receded from our memories since M.A.S.H. left the airwaves.

Billy Joe Harris joined the Army never realizing he would end up a prisoner of North Korea.  Pat Avery tells his story of suffering and horror with a sense of sadness and outrage.  Ed Slater was one of the few survivors of the Sunchon Tunnel Massacre.  She concludes with the story of Carey Weinel who served in both World War II and the Korean Conflict.  Weinel was the sole survivor of the Taejon Massacre where 60 American prisoners were shot along with thousands of South Korean civilians.  

Although tales of such barbarity are hard to read, I recommend this book to those who were there, those who waited at home and those who weren't born yet.  It's an extraordinary piece of drama -- and history that ought not be forgotten." -- Joyce Faulkner, author of In the Shadow of Suribachi 

"For the second time in his life, he was buried alive.  A plot for a horror movie -- maybe -- but for him it was reality."

"Every time I moved the pain went all through my body.  My arms were stuck under the pile of bodies, but I managed to get my left arm loose.  I reached up to my head and there was a bayonet stuck in it."