“My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.”

Meaning

The speaker is saying that his father did not completely avoid speaking about being a prisoner of war, but he shared only a small part of what he had experienced. It suggests both a willingness to speak and a limit on how much he revealed. The line also implies that those experiences were difficult to talk about in full.

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Original Language & Translation

Originally said in English.

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