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Major
Reid
,
our
instructor
,
was
a
blind
man
with
a
disconcerting
habit
of
looking
straight
at
you
and
calling
you
by
name
.
We
were
reviewing
events
after
the
war
between
the
Russo-Anglo-American
Alliance
and
the
Chinese
Hegemony
,
1987
and
following
.
But
this
was
the
day
that
we
heard
the
news
of
the
destruction
of
San
Francisco
and
the
San
Joaquin
Valley
;
I
thought
he
would
give
us
a
pep
talk
.
After
all
,
even
a
civilian
ought
to
be
able
to
figure
it
out
now
--
the
Bugs
or
us
.
Fight
or
die
.
Major
Reid
did
n't
mention
San
Francisco
.
He
had
one
of
us
apes
summarize
the
negotiated
treaty
of
New
Delhi
,
discuss
how
it
ignored
prisoners
of
war
...
and
,
by
implication
,
dropped
the
subject
forever
;
the
armistice
became
a
stalemate
and
prisoners
stayed
where
they
were
--
on
one
side
;
on
the
other
side
they
were
turned
loose
and
,
during
the
Disorders
,
made
their
way
home
--
or
not
if
they
did
n't
want
to
.
Major
Reid
's
victim
summed
up
the
unreleased
prisoners
:
survivors
of
two
divisions
of
British
paratroopers
,
some
thousands
of
civilians
,
captured
mostly
in
Japan
,
the
Philippines
,
and
Russia
and
sentenced
for
"
political
"
crimes
.
"
Besides
that
,
there
were
many
other
military
prisoners
,
"
Major
Reid
's
victim
went
on
,
"
captured
during
and
before
the
war
--
there
were
rumors
that
some
had
been
captured
in
an
earlier
war
and
never
released
.
The
total
of
unreleased
prisoners
was
never
known
.
The
best
estimates
place
the
number
around
sixty-five
thousand
.
"
"
Why
the
'
best
'
?
"
"
Uh
,
that
's
the
estimate
in
the
textbook
,
sir
.
"
"
Please
be
precise
in
your
language
.
Was
the
number
greater
or
less
than
one
hundred
thousand
?
"
"
Uh
,
I
do
n't
know
,
sir
.
"
"
And
nobody
else
knows
.
