. >> and, cybil, there's a chair next to you. >> the people behind the first person in line had to giveirections on how to navigate through the field without hitting any of the mines, and once the person did they would have to pass the coat and the package and the blindfold to the person behind them. >> oh! >> you're dead. [ laughter ] >> i was up next. with a lot of help from my teammates, i made it safely through. but it didn't end there. the border guard didn't seem to care that i was a humanitarian-aid worker. >> who are you? >> uh, alexa. >> what are you guys doing here? >> i'm delivering this package. >> what's in it? >> um... >> what's this cross? what is this? >> we're with the red cross. >> what is that? i don't know what that is. >> i think your government allowed us to be here. >> no, they didn't. we don't know anything about you. what are you guys doing? >> what did you learn from this? >> that it's really difficult to even work in the red cross because when you visit different places, there's always danger and sense of unfamiliarity, and you're not always treated like you s

so earlier i asked you to pretend that you are bob shoemaker -- and then imagine cybil stockdale. navy wife, four kids, your husband flying over north vietnam. a sedan pulls up at your house. a senior officer, his wife, and a chaplain, get out. they walk to your door. you know your husband has been shot down or killed. they come in and say, ma'am, your husband has been shot down. we think he is alive. we're not really sure. north vietnam won't tell us one way or the other. we'll try to find out. we ask you be quiet. don't talk to anybody about this. just keep quiet. don't talk to the press. don't tell anybody you don't have to, and we'll take care of it. so in 1965, you're sybil stockdale, you are a military wife and you do what you are told to do. you accept this, you trust the government. ingeniousugh this communication, you learn that a treatment for the pows is not good. through a secret communique, you learn your husband is at the hands of people that are expert s in torture and he is in leg irons for 16 hours a day. and your government is still not doing anything about it. s