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Leading up to Veterans Day, NBC is presenting a weeklong series of profiles called Medal of Honor on some of the 109 recipients of the award for military heroism who are still alive. Monday, anchor Brian Williams gave us John Finn, a sailor who was at Pearl Harbor on the date which will live in infamy. Tuesday, Williams' predecessor Tom Brokaw visited Bud Day: he was a bomber pilot, shot down over the DMZ in Vietnam, held prisoner of war for five years and beaten to within an inch of his life by his Hanoi jailors. Now MSNBC military analyst Jack Jacobs, who was awarded the medal himself, introduces us to another prisoner.
Ted Rubin was first captured as a teenager in Hungary during World War II, spending three years in a Nazi concentration camp before he was freed by the USArmy. In gratitude he signed up to be a soldier in 1950 and was sent to fight in the Korean War where he was captured and confined, this time as a prisoner of war. Conditions were abject, with PoWs freezing and starving. Rubin managed to escape--but that was not the heroism for which he won the medal. Jacobs explained: while free he foraged for food "and then snuck back in" to feed his comrades.
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