I thought paroles were for prisoners.
I mentioned in the last post that the unit Sharon's triple great grandfather belonged to was stationed in Marshall, Texas, at the end of the war and was told to report to Shreveport to obtain a parole before returning home. But what does that mean, my astute wife asked? That's what I'll discuss today. In today's thought, we'd most likely hear the word "parole" and think about prisoners in correctional institutions. We've seen the dramatizations of parole boards sitting to decide whether a prisoner should be released before the end of his/her release. And we know that paroles come with conditions. The idea in war is not too different and seems mostly to be a way of managing prisoner of war populations. Maintaining prison camps demanded manpower and supplies, and if you can rid yourself of these detainees, all the better. I remember an episode in a televised Horatio Hornblower series in which the good captain has been captured by the French. At one poi...