There is a write-up of Yee's book on the Al Jazeera website:

He attended the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1990 reunion at the Renaissance Westchester Hotel. Cadets who were in Yee's company at West Point greeted him with big hugs and strong handshakes in the crowded reception area.

The last time he saw most of them was five years ago.

Steve Anthonavage, a 1986 Dover High School graduate said he was in disbelief when he saw Yee on television.

"I wasn't even sure it was Jim," Anthonavage said.

Army Major Chauncy Nash of Fayetteville, Ga. who played soccer with Yee at West Point, says he "was just surprised to see a case like that".

"It's not Jim. It didn't make any sense to me. I thought it might have been a misunderstanding. I didn't think the charges fit what I know about Jim."

Many of West Point graduates purchased Yee’s book at the reunion. Asked about some parts of the book that criticised the U.S. military’s handling of Guantanamo detainees, Yale Peebles of Fayetteville, Ark said that he wasn’t surprised.

"Everybody's entitled to their perspective," Peebles said. "I guarantee you that no matter what the issue is, people will have opinions."

In his book, Yee comments on what occurred at the camp while he was there- He describes how he went from being a heralded advocate for Muslims in the military to imprisonment in 2003 on suspicion of espionage.

"I am a patriotic, loyal American," Yee wrote in the book. "I am not a terrorist nor am I a spy."

Describing conditions at Guantanamo jail, Yee says that when Muslim detainees would, military police "would do everything they could to disrupt the prisoners in prayer."

Female MPs "would be exceptionally inappropriate in how they patted down the prisoners", knowing that Islam prohibits physical contact between unrelated men and women, Yee says in his book.

“What happened to me was a gross miscarriage of justice,