POW Museum

**shadowcop92** · 06-21-2011, 11:57 AM

Hope this is the right area for this.

I did not know there was a POW museum, let alone in Andersonville Ga, I knew about the Civil War POW camp there. I took the slice elements there since it was 10 miles from where we were staying. It was a humbling experience to say the least. Spent about 3.5 hours there touring the POW camp and the museum. No charge to enter and see the exhibits and walk the grounds. We then went to the cemetery and checked out the tombstones and observed warriors from the Civil War days up to and including the war in Iraq and A-Stan. It was a learning experience for both me and the slice elements as we toured the area.

**Rocket1972** · 06-21-2011, 02:00 PM

Very good field trip in the midst of troubling time. I am sure it got your mind off of things a bit.

**shadowcop92** · 06-22-2011, 07:21 PM

Yes it did Brother Rocket in more ways than one.

**Purple** · 06-22-2011, 07:47 PM

In OCS, IOBC, and IOAC, we used to spend the day there with JAG officers discussing the situations we may encounter during war and the moral basis of the Law of Land Warfare.

CPT Wirz took the fall for an untenable situation not entirely of his making.

Purple

**LadyDoc** · 06-23-2011, 05:27 PM

I visited Andersonville in '91 or so. Very moving/chilling place, and very educational. I remember that even the restrooms had signs that talked about the number of deaths from dysentery, and the encampment running with sewage.

**Bags** · 06-30-2011, 09:44 PM

Check out Camp Douglas in Il. outside of Chicago. It was a Union POW Camp that was just as bad as Andersonville if not worse as they had supplies for POW's and didn't always issue them.