#prisoner of war

[the-orange-shit-stain-scam]

On July 18th, 2015, I realized that the Republican Party had left me behind. On this day, while seeking the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump had the following to say about an Annapolis graduate who was shot down, captured and tortured as a POW by the communist North Vietnam regime:

“He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

This verbal diarrhea came out of the mouth of a man who used his father’s wealth and privilege to dodge the draft five different times due to his “bone spurs”. Donald Trump is a traitor, a repeated draft dodger and the largest fraud in the history of our country.

[theworldatwar]

German soldiers captured by US soldiers at Coutances, France 1944

[rizzoto-whump]

Whumper threatens Whumpee during an interrogation

"I won't stop until you tell me everything I want to know!"

"I'll make sure your loved ones pay the price if you don't confess."

"I have ways of making you talk, and they aren't pretty."

"I'll make sure your pain is the only thing you fell until you confess."

"You'll never walk again if you keep lying to me."

[a-todd-illustration]

Captive!Sokka is kept in Prince Zuko's rooms. Zuko gets too attached and has to let him go. Will they see each other again? You bet 😉

[ltwilliammowett]

A fine French Prisoner of War, bone domino set, early 19th century

The case with carved edge and polychrome decoration depicting English warships and trophies of arms, and an outer sliding cover with full length portrait of Napoleon. Beneath the cover an inner sliding lid decorated with English and French warships and pierced as a scoreboard. The domino tiles marked with the early "double nine" set in red and gold, and including two dice. 6x1.3x1.3in(15x3x3cm)

[theworldofwars]

360th Prisoners of War Company. A goal scored against the British escort at football; 1919.

[hushed-chorus]

Prisoner of War

A Baz Pitch, coffin-trauma drabble that I wrote instead of sleeping. Below the cut, ~300 words.

CW: PTSD and some ow ow

It started in a hobby store, tucked under the overland railway bridge that leads to Waterloo station. 

Baz had had moments where he feared the dark. Anxiety, stilted breathing, crushing weight in his chest. But those had long passed. He thought the fear, the memory, was gone, done, dusted.

Then, in that store, something happened. Panic crawled into his throat and made a nest there, plucking and pulling and clogging up his airways. With each upward tick he told himself there was no danger. This would pass. Feelings just happen sometimes. They are irrational. 

They left the store, but the feeling didn’t pass. Simon noticed, but when he asked, pushed, Baz snapped at him. They argued, then, later, once Baz would let Simon touch him again, they reconciled. They found peace in one another’s arms.

But Baz couldn’t explain it, and Simon didn’t understand.

That night, Baz awoke in the black. Wooden panels closed in tight all around him. He hit, scratched, choked, and, finally, he screamed.

Simon freed him. He was in a cupboard. He crumpled in Simon’s arms, weeping for many long moments.

The next day, Simon cut the cupboard into pieces.

Baz had no memory of climbing into that dark space. These things just happen sometimes, he learned, when he gathered the courage to seek answers online. Prisoners of war. PTSD. Sometimes, the sleeper re-enacts the hardship endured. The mind’s faulty effort to make sense of what happened.

It was the trains. Sometimes, in the numpty den, they were all he heard. Rumbling and roaring in and out of Blackfriars station. The store, the bridge outside Waterloo, shook up all the mud that had settled in his mind.

Knowing is half the battle. But only half. 

Baz made an appointment with a therapist. And whenever he walks with Simon, whenever they pass under one of London's many railway bridges and a train passes overhead, Simon squeezes his hand.

[generic-whumperz]

Rambo First Blood (1982)

(AKA one of my first whump awakenings)

Jail scene

[spockvarietyhour]

Falling Skies "Prisoner of War"

[shirtlessmoviestv]

Brent Huff : Strike Commando 2 (1988)

[theworldatwar]

German POW’s are marched through the Arc de Triomphe by French soldiers after the liberation of Paris - 1944

[saggernooseai]

woof

[libertyvigil]

of course, some of this isn't understandable because I put it through google translate.

but still, the dehumanization evident is shocking.

we hear of this, but to hear from one person who has gone through it--

(I haven't even watched this but just the description is horrific)

we know some of what's going on, but we need to know more. THIS MUST STOP

russia has totally fallen into barbarism and cruelty.

from gulagu.net:

00:01:30 Video 18+ providing medical assistance to a Ukrainian from the hospital after being released from captivity (clearly - injuries from torture and holes in the legs);

00:04:00 About how bound prisoners were thrown from the KAMAZ, tortured and shot

00:08:50 How the military from the Russian Federation were going to rape the prisoner

00:14:15 Aleksey Anulya before and after captivity. Photofact

00:16:00 About how dad Alexei was killed

00:31:00 About how wounded Ukrainians are mocked

00:48:30 About seconded sadists from different DOS UFSIN

00:51:20 Special forces "nailed it hard"

00:54:00 About how the FSB and the Federal Penitentiary Service recruit prisoners

00:54:45 Federal Penitentiary Service: “Did your mother beat you as a child? And she beat me!”

00:58:00 About how special forces beat captive women

01:04:00 About torturing naked prisoners in a bathhouse with electric shocks and not only

01:09:50 About how the concentration camp nurse hated Ukrainians

01:13:20 How the Federal Penitentiary Service "painted eggs" on Easter, beat the prisoners and broke their ribs

01:14:25 About how the prisoners were put food into the bowl of the service dog of the Federal Penitentiary Service

01:18:15 About how sadists tried to rape captive women

01:38:45 How soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were carved on the cheek Z

01:42:30 About the position in which prisoners were forced to stand for 17 hours a day

01:45:15 About torture, tapik, electric current and heart burn

01:50:00 Everywhere in concentration camps there are portraits of Dzerzhinsky - the "leader of torture"

01:56:20 Nurse about torture: “They are not beaten - they are taught about their lives!”

01:56:50 About how the FSB tortures during interrogations

02:10:30 Soldering in the punishment cell - 2 tablespoons of cut. Starvation torture for 4 months

02:21:40 About torture by sleep deprivation

02:24:30 Ex-prisoner Aleksey Anulya about how he ate a worm to survive

02:29:15 After hitting the door with a stick, the prisoners should yell "Zelensky pi___ras, Biden pi___ras, Stoltenberg pi___ras, Putin is our president!"

03:10:00 How a ghost saved a prisoner

03:11:10 How to close your eyes so that they do not fly out from the blows of the sadists from the Federal Penitentiary Service

03:13:00 How I ate a rat to survive

03:18:40 What is a “tapik” and about 2 types of electric current used to torture captured Ukrainians

03:22:00 Testimony about “white pipes” (know-how of sadists so as not to break the special equipment of the PR - rubber sticks, the Federal Penitentiary Service now beat prisoners with pipes for water supply)

[annablogsposts]

Guys if you like angsty/whumpy quotes, here’s a great one from Voyager (Outlander):

“It had been visions of revenge that kept him tossing in his bed as the window lightened and the rain pattered on the sill; thoughts of Fraser confined to a tiny cell of freezing stone, kept naked through the winter nights, fed on slops, stripped and flogged in the courtyard of the prison. All that arrogant power humbled, reduced to groveling misery, dependent solely on his word for a moment’s relief.”

(For context, John Grey had become warden of a prisoner of war prison, where Fraser was kept. 10 years prior, Fraser spared Grey’s life, but also humiliated him both in front of his own soldiers and his enemy’s, causing him to be outcasted by pretty much everyone in his platoon for a while.)

Excerpt From

Voyager

Diana Gabaldon

https://books.apple.com/us/book/voyager/id419278687

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For what it’s worth, he didn’t actually end up being a bad warden, and they ended up being friends :)

[theworldofwars]

Leisure and entertainment at the Front: Two German prisoners of war wearing clown costumes made of sacking for a theatrical entertainment at 360 POW Company, France. Such entertainments were a particular feature of camp life for prisoners on both sides. However, prisoners had to rely almost entirely on their own limited resources for costumes and scenery.

[inkflourishes]

ummmmmmm hello yes i’d like a i love this movie so much i’ll combust please

the book and film haunt me…