Parents Eager For News Of POW Sons
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
August 7, 1953
August 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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The parents of prisoners of war from the Middletown area have been spending the last few nights by radios and television sets, anxiously awaiting news of their sons' release. As yet, however, no local boy has been released from North Korean prison camps. There are six known POWs from this area. Another soldier is reported, without Department of Defense verification, by the Communist radio to be a prisoner. Most parents, like Mrs. Fred Roosa, 1915 Lefferson Rd., mother of Pvt. William F. Roosa, are optimistic. "I think he’ll be coming home soon," Mrs. Roosa says. "I'm just waiting, that’s all. I'm like I always was. I keep going on. I hear such weird stories about what's going on there, but I think he'll be back," she adds...
The parents of prisoners of war from the Middletown area have been spending the last few nights by radios and television sets, anxiously awaiting news of their sons' release. As yet, however, no local boy has been released from North Korean prison camps. There are six known POWs from this area. Another soldier is reported, without Department of Defense verification, by the Communist radio to be a prisoner. Most parents, like Mrs. Fred Roosa, 1915 Lefferson Rd., mother of Pvt. William F. Roosa, are optimistic. "I think he’ll be coming home soon," Mrs. Roosa says. "I'm just waiting, that’s all. I'm like I always was. I keep going on. I hear such weird stories about what's going on there, but I think he'll be back," she adds...
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