POW/MIA's

I have a subject all of you can get wrapped around; what is it you ask excitedly? POW/MIA’s, specifically for this post, those from Vietnam/Laos.

I was listening to former Congressman John LeBoutillier on the Mark and Jim Show on 1460 AM this morning. LeBoutillier was elected to Congress in 1980, representing New York’s 6th. District. He defeated 16-year incumbent Lester L. Wolff to become the youngest member of the 97th. Congress. He served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and as a member of Special House POW/MIA Task Force.

He reported that in 1974 there were about 1200 pow’s being held by North Vietnam. The United States, reportedly made a deal to give around 5 billion as war reparations, half was provided, half of the pow’s were released including John McCain. The last half was never given, the remaining pow’s were apparently abandoned.

Why have these men been left abandoned all these years? Politicians are apparently hoping time will take care of the problem and it probably has, unfortunately, in many cases. The government has done everything it can, not, to bring them home. We have been and are shoveling out money like it was rain from Heaven but not one cent to complete the deal made way back then and to see to it that all remaining POW’s are returned and families finally have closure. Even if there is only one left we owe it to him to bring him home. A good book to read on this is “An Enormous Crime” By Bill Hendon, William Martin Hendon, Elizabeth A. Stewart.

Thank God there are some out there like Congressman Bob Dornan, Bill Dumas, http://www.billdumas.com/ and the American Legion acting on the behalf of our Nation’s POW’s and MIA’s.

This is important and requires research and interaction by us all to bring this injustice against our nations hero’s to an end.