It is good to hear that, and I like to hold faith in one’s own will to be rehabilitated and a chances for re-integration into society.

Some people get caught up in what is going on around them and are egged on to do things by peer pressure or extreme religeous compunction or nationalistic fervor or any number of other societal pressures that may exist.

I went to a stage play as it were at Fort Reno a couple years back . The stage for “Talking Toumbstones” was the cemetary there. The players would stand beside a toumbstone in the period dress of the deceased and tell their story. One was a dramatic example of that societal pressure.

One was of the post World War II era when German Prisoners were camped there. The individual was a machinist who was made to pick up arms and become an infantry grunt. His dream was to have a Machine shop that he would run, and cared little about the war, openly stating that he could do that in Germany or California. After being caught and camped up his plan was that he would eventually end up in California and be a machinist there.

He became friendly with the guards, and worked on his English and relayed his interest in becomming a U.S. citizen.

That plan was put to rest in a cafeteria incident when there was a few moments without guards. He was attacked by the loyal Nazi’s, his pants pulled down around his ankles so he could not run, and he was beat to death with milk bottles.

To think there are not some detainees at gitmo who would gladly take up an American lifestyle and be “reformed” is in my opinion simply inaccurate or narrow minded. No doubt there are ones which know there is a good standard of living, and that they could be part of it if given some consideration, and could even practice or change their religeon if that was their will. The trouble is as I have described with the German prisoner. The hardcore Islams in that camp surely would not let it happen.