None of the six prisoners of war from the Middletown area were returned last week from Korea. And the city can't ask them the questions they wanted to ask. The questions were simple ones. How do you feel? Are you the same? What will you do? But the city can turn to some of the 100 Middletown men who were prisoners during World War II and get an idea of what it's like. They are not all in the city any more. Many have taken jobs and homes elsewhere. Some have returned to the armed services. But many remain, most of them married family men with responsible jobs. The Journal contacted a few of them last week and asked them the questions we wanted to ask of the present POW's. The situation was, of course, not the same. The men contacted were German prisoners with plenty of Red Cross attention. The Communists have refused the Red Cross permission to go into the camps...

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