that night i had to go to latrine during the sleep. i saw these big banners for the march the next day. i told my guys in my squad i'm not going to march because there's going to be photographers there taking pictures of how we're being treated. i don't want to be part of that propaganda. to make a long story short. when we all fell out that day, my squad and myself, when we went back into our room -- the rest of the company saw and they went back to their rooms. the word went down to the british company. the 400 british. they heard the yanks aren't marching, they went back in their rooms. the next night in the middle of the night they came with a flashlight. they took me out and put me in solitary. that's when i was confined to those wooden boxes. have you heard anything about that? professor han:marching, they went back in their rooms. the next night in the middle of yeah. tell me. mr. conte: it was a wooden box. we called it the kennel. it was about 3 1/2 feet high and 2 feet wide and 5 feet long. i was in that for eight months. the

uses the creek as a sort of open latrine. so the creek going through andersonville increasingly becomes an open sewer. the water is polluted. by the end of the war, the only marginally fresh water in this stream is in the very center of the stream. so if you wade through the muck the human waste and pollution coming down from the confederate camp and reach into the middle of the river, you can get fresh water. captain wirz puts ropes along the river to prevent people from reaching the middle of the river and orders the soldiers who shoots to kill anyone reaching over the rope to get fresh water. so the prisoners in andersonville have a choice. they can either drink polluted water filled with human waste or they can risk getting shot trying to reach fresh water. this is an example of the kind of behavior of captain wirz that rises to the level of a war crime. similarly, wirz builds other barriers around the camp with a very ex-police it orders to shoot to kill anybody who crosses it barriers, even though the barriers seem to h

after that first mission we were supposed to fly we touched down after breakfast, went to the latrine, and it happened the second time. and as soon as it happened the second time it was a superstition. like guys wore the same clothing or the same underwear or touched the picture, or everybody had some little thing they repeated every mission. so jimmy and i ran to sit down whether we had to go or not, four times, five times. the sixth time or so, we took off. and it was a mission. and his plane didn't compact. ome come back. >> up next, norman lear reflects on his own family, after >> music superstar akon >> it is a way for me to make money. it's clearly a business >> lending his voice to those in need >> i'm in a position where i can make a difference >> his goal, to have africa be part of the modern world >> if you wanna keep africa stable, there has to be elections >> every monday, join us for exclusive... revealing... and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time... talk to al jazeera part of our special black history month coverage on al jazeea america >> i'm

after that first mission we were supposed to fly we touched down after breakfast, went to the latrine, and it happened the second time. and as soon as it happened the second time it was a superstition. like guys wore the same clothing or the same underwear or touched the picture, or everybody had some little thing they repeated every mission. so jimmy and i ran to sit down whether we had to go or not, four times, five times. the sixth time or so, we took off. and it was a mission. and his plane didn't compact. ome come back. >> up next, norman lear reflects on his own family, after >> an america tonight investigation >> somebody could come in and take our home away from us >> it was a law that helped condo developments stay afloat >> we would have to sell and have to leave our unit >> now, this law is being used to take peoples homes >> there's nobody helping us... >> honest people, losing hope... >> i didn't fight vietnam so that someone could take my property away from me >> hard sell an america tonight investigation only on al jazeera america >> i'm adam may, you're watching "talk

after that first mission we were supposed to fly we touched down after breakfast, went to the latrine, and it happened the second time. and as soon as it happened the second time it was a superstition. like guys wore the same clothing or the same underwear or touched the picture, or everybody had some little thing they repeated every mission. so jimmy and i ran to sit down whether we had to go or not, four times, five times. the sixth time or so, we took off. and it was a mission. and his plane didn't compact. ome come back. >> up next, norman lear reflects on his own family, after >> the new al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've been looking for. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> at 7:00, a thorough of the day's events. >> at the end of the day, we're going to give you an intelligent, context driven, take on the day's news. >> then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. >> this is a complicated situation. how significant is it? >> and at 9:00, get a global perspective on the news. >> they're sending their government a mes

that night i had to go to latrine during the sleep. i saw these big banners for the march the next day. i told my guys in my squad i'm not going to march because there's going to be photographers there taking pictures of how we're being treated. i don't want to be part of that propaganda. when we all fell out that day, my squad and myself when we went back into our room -- the rest of the company saw and they went back to their rooms. the word went down to the british company. they went back in their rooms. the next night in the middle of the night they came with a flashlight. they took me out and put me in solitary. that's when i was confined to those wooden boxes. have you heard anything about that? >> yeah. tell me. >> it was a wooden box. we called it the kennel. it was about 3 1/2 feet high and 2 1/2 feet wide and 5 feet long. but i was the last one in the wooden boxes. me and an englishman keith godman. from there when they let me out, that was in december of 1952 -- they let me out of the box. they gave me like four or five lett

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