Current Status of Unaccounted-for Americans Lost in the Vietnam War (Cambodia)

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Re: Current Status of Unaccounted-for Americans Lost in the Vietnam War (Cambodia)

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John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:12 am
atkins, k wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:05 am You will never convince me otherwise. The USA knowing left POWs in SEA prisoner of war camps.
What course of action would you have advised? The US congress and public were burned out on Vietnam. The Mayaguez Incident showed that once the communist forces had gotten dug in, like they had on Koh Tang, there weren't going to be any Rambo extractions happening.
Ending a war and leaving POWs arent mutually exclusive. I would have advised never going to Nam in the first place, but we did. And we didnt lose the war our politicians and media lost it.
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@SternAAlbifrons
Bo Gritz was a despicable human being used by other despicable human beings.

Anyways I think POWs were alive in Nam and Laos for a very long time, until it became very clear that the political fall out of admitting to still having Western prisoners was too much
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I don't think Mr Gritz was despicable.
Just a fool with the Hero complex. Maybe mad. ?? he seemed to go right over the edge at the end of his life, at least.

I have no opinion on missing MIA's post 1975 anywhere else in SEA** but i have seen nothing that seriously suggests there were any remaining alive at the end of the war in Cambodia.

(** but i have a general faith the US military would not have covered it up. Too many of them would have cared. imo. )
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