Day 11: Government, Its People
COL James N. “Nick” Rowe knew better than anyone what it was like to have your mind under constant assault. For five years he endured the pressures of the Viet Cong to manipulate him into betraying his country. He never did. They used lack of food, sleep, and medical attention, daily indoctrination sessions and physical torture to extract a statement that would embarrass the United States. He used his strong sense of identity, his understanding of himself as a Texan, a Methodist, a West Point officer and a Green Beret, to withstand the assault on his mind. The love he received from his parents gave him a reason to go on when every fiber of his being wanted to give up. Sometime in the mid 1980s he gave an interview to the staff chaplain at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. The U.S. Army Special Operations History Office broke the interview into 12 segments and uploaded it to its YouTube Channel. Better than “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” “The Twelve Days of Resilience” offers something you can actually use: An understanding of communist propaganda tactics and how to protect yourself from their subtle but malicious methods. The series wraps up with Day 11 covering the government versus the people in it, and on Day 12, the topic is fighting for a cause versus fighting for money.
Day 11: Government vs. People In It
COL Rowe learned to separate the government, the system, from the people who served in it. He knew after being exposed to anti-war reporting in the The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, and the Congressional Record, that he strongly disagreed with those at home who didn’t think stopping the spread of the malignancy of communism was worth the fight. His loyalty to the government was to the system itself and its founding documents: the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and how they afford the most amount of freedom to the most amount of people—ever in the course of recorded history. COL Rowe knew this well and understood he would have problems with war protestors inside and out of government when he returned, and he did. But his loyalty was to the Constitution, just like many of us pledged to when we raised our right hand to repeat the Enlistment Oath.
Because COL Rowe was a Green Beret, he knew that his brethren within Special Forces were looking for him the whole time he was in captivity. This is one of the reasons why he kept trying to escape.
Links below become active as each segment is published.
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 1
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 2 Skills and The Code
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 3-Being Scared
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 4 Rewriting the Rambo Narrative
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 5 Religeon and Faith
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 6, Personal Coping
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 7, Isolation and Keeping Faith with Others
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 8, Maintaining Identity
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 9, Defining What’s Right
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 10 Dissent vs. Disloyalty
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 11, Government, Its People
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 12, We Fight for a Cause
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