Any member of the military held in captivity as a prisoner of war or hostage is more likely to be at increased risk for mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder. This assumption goes against everything thought to be known during World War I, it was noted time and time again that both English and German POWs were somehow immune to war neuroses and only susceptible to wire disease barbed recently identified which is the prisoner's reaction to his environment during prison life. Interestingly, though, up to this point in the story there had been no real data or studies collected on the post-release effects of imprisonment. POW repatriation and new rehabilitation programs were designed to help service members of the Armed Forces readjust to service life or if their enlisted men were able to readjust to their former civilian lives. The disorders found in prisoners of war were often explained in terms of pre-war predisposition to mental illness. Recent studies and those also conducted on World War I and subsequent studies of prisoners of war have discovered a higher rate of PTSD among veterans. The former prisoner of war who escaped or was released by the captors is also a war veteran, but also a veteran of totally different experiences from their typical veteran counterparts. The POW battle was not only a battle for daily survival, but also a never-ending battle against psychological intimidation, physical suffering, boredom, degradation, feelings of vulnerability, and sometimes depression. Furthermore, another noteworthy effect of being a POW was the recognition of "hero" by the public and/or the military community upon their honorable return from capture, followed by the attention they would receive over the years following the return. The reintegration process returns to “normal… in the middle of paper… and their families, not all injuries are physical and they are not left in cells upon returning to the United States. The men who returned home from World War II were welcomed and, more importantly, celebrated by the entire nation, but the efforts of those who returned home from the Vietnam War did not resonate as strongly within the country . The Vietnam POW was lightly honored by our government, but America's greatest populist struggled to separate his personal beliefs from his discontent with the war and unfairly placed blame on those who returned home after doing only what they they had been asked. Then President Nixon spoke briefly during his State of the Union address saying this way that they returned with honor and we can be proud of our brave prisoners of war that they came home with their heads held high and not on their knees.