POWs

More than 80 years after his demise in a Japanese POW camp, U.S. Army Air Force Pfc. Robert Colter Jr. is in his native Lakeland, where he will be buried Feb. 22.

After a delay of 65 years and an Act of Congress, a Polk County soldier has finally been acknowledged for his heroism and sacrifice while a prisoner of…

Living with rats and bugs. Enduring no heat in the winter or cooling in the summer. Surviving torture.These are conditions that Lee Ellis endured as a…