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POW/MIA Issues Languish

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I know this man. Mil Thornton. Airborne all the way! I too have been affiliated with the Run For The Wall. My son went with me on the ten day ride to DC, back in 2003. He claims to this day that he had never known the true nature of soldiering and the value of veterans to our nation. Ryan Brewer filmed the entire excursion which will one day be quite a collectors item.
We must never ever allow this issue to be placed on a back burner.
Hello Everyone.
I am attaching an excerpt out of the book and the website of ‘An Enormous Crime’ by Bill Henden. It is an account of the known fact that POW’s were left behind in Vietnam after Operation Homecoming and how it is a continued effort to cover up the fact by every Presidential administration since Carter. If you would like more information and are not convinced after reading these links that I’ve attached then I don’t know what it would take to convince anyone that the United States deserted our brothers in arms in Vietnam. I have read the book when it came out and continue to enlightin myself with it. I have paruzed the website for the colaborating documents that the authors put out to colaborate the infomation. This is what makes me continue the efforts with RFTW and Rolling Thunder to make our government accountable for the hundreds that did not come home with Operation Homecoming when the POW’s were released. We should never give up our fight to bring them home.
“Bring them Home
Or send us Back”
Mil

7 thoughts on “POW/MIA Issues Languish”

  2. 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 .

  3. 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.

    1. 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.

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