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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

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Re: Ex-POWs Remember

Date: April 17, 2001

":Chilling Memories Recounted By Area POWs
South-central Wisconsin veterans told chilling stories Friday about their days spent as prisoners of war during a local POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony.

World War II veterans spoke about having no food, marching at gunpoint for 600 miles in unbearable cold and burying their own comrades killed by friendly fire at Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, News 3 reports.

Former prisoner of war Cliff Syverud's description of 12 months of horrors brought tears to many people's eyes. Syverud was shot down on a bombing run, and endured an 86-day, 600-mile march in the freezing cold.

He said that the filth and starvation were beyond comprehension.

"No record exists that can show the indignities these men suffered," Syverud (pictured, above) said. "With pneumonia, temperatures as high as 105 (and) frozen feet, men were told to march or die."

Syverud said that British fighter planes shot at anything that walked. He said that he remembers 29 comrades being killed by friendly fire in one day.

POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremonies are now held throughout the nation and around the world on military installations. Click here for more information."

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