Traveling as a Prisoner of War

During one of Billy's flashbacks, the narrator describes the train ride to a prison of war camp. These train rides were not fancy at all. The prisoners would be piled into the boxcars with no food or sanitation. Many prisoners died before they arrived at the camp. There were many POWs during World War Two, Korean War, and Vietnam. There are even some POWs in the Iraq War today. They are usually not treated right and some were even killed if they tried to escape or for other purposes. No soldier wants to be a prisoner of war.