Surviving Hell Quotes

“Jim Warner, reminded me recently of a guard who was caught in flagrante with a dog. Afterwards Jim and his cellmates would occasionally make the sounds of a dog in distress, knowing that the guard would frantically run toward the noise. He became known as Sniffles the Pooch Puncher. However”
― Leo Thorsness, Surviving Hell: A POWs Journey

“Here I was, locked in a grimy, tiny five-by-six-foot cell, and he was walking around unrestrained outside. But I knew that I was the lucky one.”
― Leo Thorsness, Surviving Hell: A POWs Journey

“I made a commitment that when I was again free, I would study subjects I knew nothing about.”
― Leo Thorsness, Surviving Hell: A POWs Journey

“During the really tough first couple of years in prison, I felt like the 23rd Psalm was dictated by the Lord specifically for POWs.”
― Leo Thorsness, Surviving Hell: A POWs Journey

“Sometimes you are the only one who can save another’s life and, as Hillel said, it becomes a matter of “If not me, who? If not now, when?”
― Leo Thorsness, Surviving Hell: A POWs Journey

“It was the summer of 1969, about two years after I was shot down, that I received an unusual tap code message. It had made its way slowly to the Zoo through a dozen cells in three different buildings to reach me. Like all messages, it was abbreviated and came through as: “LT U NOMINATED 4 MOH.” I was the only POW with these initials so it had to be me.”
― Leo Thorsness, Surviving Hell: A POWs Journey