Hal Kushner in “Unfinished Business”

(on his Viet Cong captor) He had a little reel-to-reel battery-powered tape recorder. And he asked me to record a message to my family to let them know that I was safe. I said I could do that if I would make a statement against the war. And I told with with great bravado that I would rather die than make a statement against my country. And he said to me, "You will find dying is very easy. Living, living is the difficult thing."