Kiss the boys goodbye!

[PaulS]

If Garwood saw 26, why no pictures? If your moving soldiers around to tend different fields or go to different sites, wouldn't it require enough guards so that it wouldn't be worth it for the amount of work their capable of doing in their weakened state. I also think at least one would have escaped. I agree they trade the bones for $ every once and a while. Maybe some of those bones are from guys they killed right after the end of the war instead of giving them back to us???

[Swimmer]

Paul, Garwood was a prisoner himself. Hence no photos. He was being transported form one place to another when he saw those prisoners.

Hesh2 did you really mean to say so what if we left a few prisoners behind? If thats what you meant to say............... that is whacked. Tell me is Jane Fonda a cousin of yours?

It has been documented that upwards of 380 were left behind alive in Vietnam.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

Hesh2 did you really mean to say so what if we left a few prisoners behind? If thats what you meant to say............... that is whacked. Tell me is Jane Fonda a cousin of yours?

Frank - you read his response wrong - read it again now after some coffee and you'll get it


It is those guys in the field that pay most for the incompetence of the civilians that get them into the trouble in the first place and then the incompetence of the civilians when they try to pull them out.

What changed in history? That decades ago we had (relatively) competent leadership and the past generation nosomuch? Is it just that history represents itself once a couple decades have gone past?

There is no excuse to abandoning our service people - ever

[HESH2]

swimmer no one should ever be left behind.the politicians wanted out so they wrote off our people.right now in iraq the marines early in the war had sadr and his milita in a firefight,we had them and the politicans let them walk out to end up fighting and killing our people today.if your going to war kill them all.for those who hav'ent read LONE SURVIVOR read it.about a navy seal who is only survivor in afaganistan mission,alot of political statements made by an american hero.

[Backbeach Jake]

There is no excuse to abandoning our service people - ever

That sums it up for me, too, Boss. This story makes me sick, but doesn't surprise me at all.

[Swimmer]

Yes, I did, but that is why I put a question at the end and not a period making my reply a statement. I didn't think Hesh meant it that way. Looking for clarification. And thank you for that.

This book is an extraordinary written indicment of intra-agency cooperation (which never occurred before and never will again) to negate any evidence that POW's ever existed in Vietnam. Like I said I avoided this book for years, because my generation got caught up in this whether you were in the service or not, and I listen to a dear friend many mornings at coffee talk about his group and single meetings at the VA, (Sepcial Forces helicopter crew chief), so I stopped following my literary interests in this era awhile ago. But like my brother will tell you I am a history buff, so I dropped my guard and now I have a renewed interest again. I sometimes become obsessed with different eras or writers like my interest in Kerouac. I read everything even remotely attributed to him, sometimes twice.

It is one thing if it is impossible to follow up on POW's, but it is an entirely different when so many people purposely led the American people away from what appears to be incontrovertable truth that American pow's were alive at least into the late 1980's.

[afterhours]

Totally inexcusable to leave ANY of our pow's ANYWHERE, ANYTIME..