[Vision2020] POW/MIA Accountability

[lfalen]

Thanks Tom
I don't know if he is still on anybodies list, but Roderick Meyer from Lewiston was a POW. He was in my undergraduate class in 1961. He was on the POW list just before the mass release after the end of the war, but was not one of those released. He  went though the ROTC program here. I think I will use your information to enquire about him.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:48:34 -0800
To: "Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] POW/MIA Accountability

> Greetings Visionaires -
> 
> Copied and pasted below is an email (with attachments) concerning a POW/MIA
> that has not been accounted for.  I have sent this email to:
> 
> Representative-elect Bill Sali 
> bill at billsali.com
> 
> Governor-elect "Butch" Otter
> http://otter.house.gov/contact_information.aspx
> 
> Senator Larry Craig
> http://craig.senate.gov/webform.cfm
> 
> Senator Mike Crapo
> http://crapo.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
> 
> Representative Mike Simpson
> http://www.house.gov/simpson/emailme.shtml
> 
> This inquiry is the first in what I promise to be several submissions in
> seeking accountability from our elected officials concerning a topic that is
> far too often swept under the rug: Unaccounted for POWs/MIAs.
> 
> In order to draw more immediate and impacting attention I have restricted my
> focus (for the time being) to only those unaccounted for POWs/MIAs whose
> home state is Idaho.
> 
> First up:  Staff Sergeant William B. Hunt (Sandpoint, Idaho)
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:  POW/MIA Accountability (SSG William B. Hunt)
> 
> Dear ,
> 
> What is being done to determine the fate of Staff Sergeant William B. Hunt -
> US Army, who was last seen wounded awaiting medevac at a landing zone
> northeast of Soui Da, 10 miles from Dau Tieng on November 4, 1966?  No
> remains were ever found although there was an intensive search of the area
> later on. 
> 
> Although assumed to have been killed in action, Staff Sergeant William B.
> Hunt's name appeared on a list of POWs included in an extensively detailed
> report of a POW camp located near Hue, South Vietnam provided by a defector
> in 1985.  Although the report has been substantiated by returned POWs who
> were held there, the U.S. Defense Department has declared that the defector
> is a liar, and has discounted his report.
> 
> Attached as enclosure is a detailed account of Staff Sergeant Hunt's
> activities on November 4, 1966, prior to his disappearance.
> 
> Please advise me of any action that is being taken by you or any other
> elected or appointed official to determine his fate.
> 
> In the event there is nothing being done, please explain why not, and tell
> me how you, personally, plan to correct this and prevent it from ever
> happening again.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Thomas P. Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> US Army (Retired)
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I STRONGLY encourage that each of us adopt an unaacounted for POW/MIA at:
> 
> "Operation Just Cause"
> http://www.ojc.org
> 
> And that we DEMAND accountability from our elected officials.
> 
> Pro patria,
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> 
>