Our POWs: In memory, others' pain feels as real as his own (The Virginian-Pilot)

VIRGINIA BEACH Al Cratch was floating down in a parachute over Romania. He was bleeding heavily, riddled with shrapnel from the guns of the Luftwaffe M e109s that had just blasted his B-24 bomber out of the sky. “It was pretty quiet,” Cratch recalls of his 15,000-foot drift to earth. “And kind of cold. There was a lot of time to think.”

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