Messrs. Tenneson and Wills were, as WFB relates, "captured by the North Koreans 15 years ago, and after a long period in prisoner-of-war camps, elected to abandon the United States and go to live in China. Mr. Tenneson stayed for only a few years, Mr. Wills for a much longer time, returning only in 1965." Neither Mr. Tenneson nor Mr. Wills proves to be madly articulate, but perhaps for that very reason we get something of a sense of how the ordinary GI was likely to react. One factor in Mr. Tenneson's defection was Joe McCarthy ("That doesn't make [America] that much better a place to come back to than where you're at"); in Mr. Wills's case, it was "complete, total dissatisfaction with our own side, with the way they were running things ... In fact, I was caught during one marvelous confusing event, you see, one that lasted three days, and we didn't know where the front line was and where our rear was, or anything."