TO RESIST

[Music] if I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy [Music] Edwin's you okay I'm okay such how you fix the ammo I've got seven clips no grenades no matter how hard he may have fought to prevent it there is always the chance a fighting man may be captured by the enemy so long as he keeps up the fight there is no disgrace for the prison camp is only an extension of the battlefield in a strange that's right I'm putting you on the list how about many ahead of me some hope there's a god coming now listen be on front of the child line tonight I've got a job for you yeah [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] two Americans have escaped for the enemy the question now is did em escape organization set up a mock fight to cover the escape to get this answer the interrogators unlimber every weapon one of the most dangerous and subtle is the offer of parole parole parole as soft inviting per parole in exchange for certain privileges a promise he will not try to escape again and again the offer is made till the whole camp seems to echo with the Big Island invitation its then every man must face up to what it really means military personnel of United States Army are forbidden to give their paroles to the enemy no member of the army can give a parole to the enemy unless he's authorized to give it by a senior officer or the none common command when these flatheads offer a parole they're giving you exactly nothing you're giving them something oh you mean such when you give them your word of honor your parole that you won't try to escape you're one guy they don't have to worry about now multiply you by ten that's two God's they can send someplace else where they need him worse having parolees in a camp makes their job easier another way even as he talks the sergeant is worried about one of his men PFC cranes sure he did his assignment all right he had started the fight that covered the escape but in prison camp as elsewhere a man is known by the company he keeps hey crane hey get away from that fence will ya soapy snakes come on back here boy what's the matter what's up Novak you what's that matter with you what's the matter with me look you stay away from that fence when you [Music] you heard what they said when they brought us in here yesterday nuts what do you want to take a chance on trouble for look they got no troop counting a with luck a guy might you might stir up a hornet's nest it's not just your net what about the rest of us listen I was watching on the way here about a mile north as a dry riverbed with plenty of brush for cover but there's bound to be water somewhere along there for care teams I look clean will you listen to me you would never make it five miles listen bye-bye trouble if they catch you boy no tell me what they do to you just play it cool and how would that noise look I heard they caught a guy from barracks number two list we can all they do was send some 30 days in solitary you like it here I'll give it yeah but ants will come and when it does I'm going out who said anything about liking is here all I said was you're taking a chance do me a favor take a walk with you I got things that the sergeant has seen cranes discussed for the parolee and a few hours later after cranes interrogations any further doubts about him are answered he offered me a parole if I tell him that that was friend said if I give my word of running out to escape I could have plenty of good food and a room over myself with a stove in it I told him the fight was strictly on the level and I should know because I started it I paid a man he told me to get the hell out he seemed a little anxious they give me that parole for the sergeant although with guards around him his expression can't show it a moment of pride in a fellow soldier for he knows the will to resist is what keeps a man alive until that inevitable wonderful day [Music] [Music] for a soldier to resist in the battlefield of the prison camp is the only way to live at peace with his soul and his fellow Americans and for the parolee what lies ahead now the enemy has used him discarded him and there is no pension plan for collaborators he deserves the scornful eyes of other men who had the will to resist who were ingrained with the spirit of the soldier's creed if I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy [Music]