Current Status of Unaccounted-for Americans Lost in the Vietnam War (Cambodia)
Re: Current Status of Unaccounted-for Americans Lost in the Vietnam War (Cambodia)
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.John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:12 amWhat 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.
Re: Current Status of Unaccounted-for Americans Lost in the Vietnam War (Cambodia)
@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
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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Re: Current Status of Unaccounted-for Americans Lost in the Vietnam War (Cambodia)
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. )
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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