| All in all, approximately 13,000 allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway. |
| I wrote the amount on each ang pow. When Chinese New Year came, just after the Alzheimer's diagnosis, I thought all Ma could do was hand out the ang pows. |
| Stowed below deck with 1,600 other PoWs, he was forced to exist in a space so cramped they had to lie down to sleep in relays. |
| He was left for dead in a hut known by the PoWs as the death house, but fellow prisoners nursed him to health. |
| On the fourth attempt he evaded recapture and, along with a group of Special Forces, took part in operations behind enemy lines and also helped fellow POWs escape. |
| Kerry publicly supported Hanoi's position to use our POWs as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a peace agreement. |
