{"id":180037,"date":"2021-05-26T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=202752"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T08:53:13","slug":"fifty-years-later-the-forgotten-story-of-dissenting-pows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/26\/fifty-years-later-the-forgotten-story-of-dissenting-pows\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years Later: The Forgotten Story of Dissenting POWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Middle Eastern wars that the US has been waging for the past 30 years, few soldiers or pilots have become prisoners of war. The best known is Bowe Bergdahl, a 23-year old Army private who was captured by the Taliban in 2009 and held until a prisoner exchange arranged five years later by  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/26\/fifty-years-later-the-forgotten-story-of-dissenting-pows\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/26\/fifty-years-later-the-forgotten-story-of-dissenting-pows\/\">Fifty Years Later: The Forgotten Story of Dissenting POWs<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/26\/fifty-years-later-the-forgotten-story-of-dissenting-pows\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Middle Eastern wars that the US has been waging for the past 30 years, few soldiers or pilots have become prisoners of war. The best known is Bowe Bergdahl, a 23-year old Army private who was captured by the Taliban in 2009 and held until a pris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180149,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180037\/revisions\/180149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}