"Contractors at Guatanamo Bay recently painted ‘Honor Bound.’ The full motto “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” was established during the command of Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller who served here from late 2002 to early 2004) (Photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Carlos "C-LO Sancho" Sanchez)"

Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is the motto of the Joint Task Force Guantánamo charged with running the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.^[1]

Commentators have remarked on the motto's unfortunate connotation of the notorious Arbeit Macht Frei ("Work Brings Freedom") motto used by various Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. ^[2]

[edit] Cultural references

Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is the title of a 2004 book by Victoria Brittain (a former Guardian foreign editor) and novelist Gillian Slovo (ISBN 1-84002-474-7).

Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is also a 2004 play, based upon interviews with the families of men detained in Guantanamo Bay, by the same authors. It premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in London in 2004 and transferred to Off Broadway.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Carlos "C-LO" Sanchez (January 17, 2008). "Honor Bound to Defend Freedom". The Wire (JTF-GTMO). pp. 15. http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/wire/WirePDF/issue47v8.pdf#15. Retrieved 2008-02-10. 
2. ^ Porter, Bernard (2006). Empire and superempire: Britain, America, and the world. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-300-11010-3. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m38uhldLcGsC&dq. Retrieved 2009-12-18. 
3. ^ "Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom". Timeline Theatre. http://www.timelinetheatre.com/guantanamo/index.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-10.