In a message dated 5/31/02 2:13:37 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

>So how long was Joyce's brother held by the ROC/North Koreans?  It's my
>understanding they weren't Geneva Convention signatories (like the NVA).
>Must've been awful for him.
>
He was taken to Manchuria and "brain washed" and went right along with them
(no John McCain stuff). They released some of them and the trekked south to
North Korea the first hut the came to, they climbed on the roof and painted
(somehow) the letters "P.O.W" and a helicopter rescued them.