You said: "We owe 'all' of the POW's our gratitude and respect."

...and then you continued with: "Their [POW's] treatment was extremely cruel..."

This is not true... Some were treated like gold (compared to how others were treated) for obvious reasons; thus my remark that not 'all' POW's should be lumped together... with the respect you stated.

I have in no way condoned what Westen said...

JB