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I never lost hope, and never did I despair of coming back alive.

— James Robinson Risner

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Resist until you are tortured, but do not take torture to the point where you lose the permanent use of your limbs.

Korea was probably the high point of my whole career as far as real gratification is concerned.

Fear is a luxury one can’t afford.

I felt the South Vietnamese had a right to their own self-determination. And I was over there to help them to maintain that self-determination.

Vietnam: A Television History; Interview with Robinson Risner (1981)

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