Love for God and his country: What an ex-POW learned in an internment camp

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Ahead of Veterans Day, Fresno Christian School invited an ex-prisoner of warfare to stock his acquisition with the students.

Retired Corporal Samuel Banuelos served successful the U.S. Army from 1950 until 1954.

He was trapped successful an internment campy for 2 years during the Korean War, but portion galore astir him whitethorn person mislaid hope, helium says helium ne'er fto circumstances shingle his faith.

“We went connected a patrol and we were not alert that the force had moved forward, and they were precise bully astatine camouflage. It was lone 2 months connected the beforehand lines and past I was caught,” Banuelos said.

Ambushed and imprisoned, Banuelos spent 2 years connected his knees, praying for rescue and for his household to retrieve him.

“I ne'er mislaid anticipation that the subject would effort to rescue us,” Banuelos said. 

He yet made it location successful 1954 aft the warfare was over.

Now, astatine 94 years old, helium wants to stock what helium learned successful the internment campy with the adjacent generation.

“To larn to emotion their state and to person religion successful God and to beryllium responsible,” Banuelos said.

During his code to the students Thursday, immoderate experienced a caller appreciation for their freedom.

“It's conscionable inspiring to spot him proceed to combat internally erstwhile helium couldn't combat externally and conscionable person religion successful our country,” Junior Delaney Meyers said.

He says his emotion of state is wherefore helium served; his emotion of God is wherefore helium persevered.