Missing In Action, 10 May 1968, SVN
Missing In Action, 29 April 1966, NVN
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All gave some...some gave all.
We will not forget!
For 591 Americans, freedom came at the end of the war. For another 2400+ however, freedom has never come. Since the war ended, nearly 10,000 reports relating to missing Americans in southeast Asia have been received by the U.S., convincing many authorities that hundreds remain alive in captivity. If so, what must they think of us?
Ironically, one of the most impassioned voices calling for a reckoning of the missing Americans is that of a former Russian, Nobel Prize winning writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
There was such a hurry to make this truce (the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 negotiated by Henry Kissinger) that they forgot to liberate your own Americans from captivity. How can this be? Part of them, indeed, can be missing in action, but the leaders of North Vietnam themselves have admitted that some of them are still being kept in prison. And do they give you back your countrymen? No, they are not giving them back and they are always raising new conditions. At first they say "Remove Thieu from power." Now they say "Have the United States restore Vietnam, otherwise it is very difficult for us to find these people."
If the government of North Vietnam has difficulty explaining to you what happened to your brothers, the American POW's who have not yet returned, I, on the basis of my experience in the Archipelago, can explain this quite clearly. There is a law in the Archipelago that those who have been treated the most harshly and who have withstood the most bravely, the most honest, the most courageous, the most unbending, never again come out into the world. They are never again shown to the world because they have such tales as the human mind cannot accept. A part of your returned POW's told you they were tortured. This means that those who have remained were tortured even more but did not yield an inch. These are your best people. They are your first heroes who, in solitary combat, have stood the test. And today, unfourtunately, they cannot take courage from your applause. They cannot hear it from their solitary cells.
Please do your part in the fight to bring home our loved ones. Please
write the President and your Congressmen and Senators and let them know that
this fight is not over till ALL of our Men and Women are accounted
for.
I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to keep pushing this issue inside the Beltway. The need to get specific answers is more important now than ever before. If still alive, some MIA's are now in their 70's. They don't have much time left. We have to demand the answers from the bureaucrats and keep standing on their necks (figuratively speaking) until they get the message that THEY work for US and that we are serious about getting these long overdue responses. Diplomatic considerations aside. We can no longer allow questionable protocols established by pseudo-aristocratic armchair strategists, to determine or influence the fate of the men who were in the trenches while the diplomats were sharing sherry and canapes and talking about "Their Plans" for the future of SE Asia.
Poor is the Nation who has no Heroes.....
SHAMEFUL the one who having them, forgets!!!
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More than 900 U.S. prisoners of war were believed to have been left behind in North Korea when the Korean War ended in 1953, according to a newly declassified memo and testimony at a House hearing Tuesday (September 17). Some of the Americans may have been subjected to deadly medical experiments and then executed, witnesses told a House National Security subcommittee. The Defense Department memorandum said 610 Army and 300 Air Force people were believed still held prisoner in North Korea. North Korea has said it is not holding any Americans prisoner. For the full text story, click HERE!
The Green Berets -- Sgt. Barry Sadler
Fighting soldiers from the sky, fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say, the brave men of the Green Berets
Silver wings upon their chest, these are men, America's best
One hundred men, will test today but only three win the Green
Beret
Trained to live off nature's land, trained in combat hand to
hand
Men who fight by night and day, charistic(?) from the Green Beret
Silver wings upon their chest, these are men, America's best
One hundred men, will test today but only three win the Green
Beret
Back at home a young wife waits, her Green Beret has met his
fate
He has died for those oppressed, leaving her this last request
Put silver wings on my son's chest, make him one of America's best
He'll be a man they'll test one day, have him win the Green
Beret
