[Vision2020] Vietnam War Remains Repatriated

[Tom Hansen]

This may be very possible, Chas.

Recently, a deserter from the Korean War was returned to the states for 
court-martial.  He as tried, convicted, and sentenced to virtually no time 
at all.  Within a month he returned to his home and family in Korea where he 
had been living for the past 50 years.

I can understand (and I sympathize) with their sentiment.

However, we must never forget and we must forever stay the course until 
those missing are accounted for.

For, although I symphathize with the soldier I have just described, consider 
his stateside friends and family.  What of them?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


>From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
>To: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Vietnam War Remains Repatriated
>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:12:33 -0700
>
>On 10/13/05, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> > >From today's (October 13, 2005) Army Times (www.armytimes.com)
>
> > The Bush administration force the Vietnamese government to account for 
>those
> > 1,800 Americans that remain listed, and have been since 1975, as missing
> > MIA's and unreturned POW's.
>
>When I was stationed in the Republic of Korea, I met a small group of
>gentlemen who claimed to be unreturned POW's.  They were of the right
>age, so I can't refute their story.  Several indicated that they had
>gone AWOL, and simply hadn't been able to face their stateside
>families with the shame.  Their reasons for migrating to Korea were
>various, but amounted to it being an easier place to stay lost.
>
>This occurred in the late 1980's; the men involved appeared to be in
>their mid-30's to mid-40's.
>
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