Comments on: POW/MIA Issues Languish http://veteranveritas.com/?p=454 Hang out for combat veterans and families. Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: mike_brewer http://veteranveritas.com/?p=454#comment-1395 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:46:52 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/?p=454#comment-1395 I will indeed pass that on to the writer, and go there myself. Thanks.

]]> By: mike_brewer http://veteranveritas.com/?p=454#comment-1394 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:45:54 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/?p=454#comment-1394 Yes, I have heard that. Also read a fascinating book called, “Hard Men Humble” Vietnam Veterans Who Wouldn’t Come Home. By Jonathan Stevenson. It is about men who just stayed in Nam for a thousand different reasons. Love, money, drugs, business, et al.
I know we came across a few defectors when on day patrols. Never really knew what category they were put in. Probably just non-combat deaths.
I know from historical readings that tons of WWll vets that  stayed in Italy after the war. Hemingway spoke of them and their ribauld lifestyles.

]]> By: J. A. Schlatter http://veteranveritas.com/?p=454#comment-1393 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:49:51 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/?p=454#comment-1393 The letter-writer says he has “paruzed” Hendon’s website.
He would do better, and would find more facts, if he perused this website:
http://www.miafacts.org
 

]]> By: tiponeill http://veteranveritas.com/?p=454#comment-1392 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:51:14 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/?p=454#comment-1392 “Bring them Home
Or send us Back”

No need to be “sent back” – tourists can visit any time.

]]> By: fraser007 http://veteranveritas.com/?p=454#comment-1391 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:03:38 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/?p=454#comment-1391 One more point. I saw an interview with Chief of Staff Thomas Morer (sp) (more than a few years ago). He said that there were no Amercans held against their will in North Vietnam. “Held against their will.” The government did not want their families to loose their benefits. It was not their fault.

]]> By: fraser007 http://veteranveritas.com/?p=454#comment-1390 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:00:56 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/?p=454#comment-1390 Mike:
It is my belief that there were some Americans who were left behind. But……..remember in the Korean War 21 defected. In the Vietnam War probably 125 or more defected. The USA doesnt want them back and the NVA dont want them around. My guess is that the North Vietnames killed them after the war was over. Probably no pilots but some of the draftees stayed. The soldiers who seserted inside South Vietnam and who found themselves at loose ends when the NVA took over Saigon. They had no plane flight out. How many were on drugs ?
Not many out of the 525,000 who were there at the peak but a few dozen to 125 .

]]> By: mike_brewer http://veteranveritas.com/?p=454#comment-1389 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:40:58 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/?p=454#comment-1389 When I figure out why Word Press decreases the font size in its impish way, I will correct this.
 
 
 

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