Posted: 1/27/2003 12:03:05 AM EDT
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Here's a question I've been wondering about. I see those black "Not Forgotten" flags, but what are your thoughts on this? Is it possible that any are still alive after 30 some odd years in Asia? I'll confess, I'm not ex-GI, nor quite old enough to have been drafted for Viet Nam, so I really don't know what current popular thought is on POW's and whether or not any may still actually be alive somewhere. I personally suspect that while there may have been many left behind, they've all received a bullet long since. (No disrespect intended.) |
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You might enjoy reading "The Men We Left Behind." You can research the ISBN on the internet. Sent my copy to my dad. My vote: Probably some American GIs still there. Some by choice, some not. Although 30 yrs may be stretching it. This is such a sad sad tale... No OPSEC probs here. |
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I'm "only" 28, and I wear a pow belt buckle, and have at least one of the tshirts, and I have had people buy me drinks, and bought drinks for others, because of it. I worked in a gun/surplus store in a town with a VA hospital, and I met a ton of vets that stopped by after or before their appointments. Met one of the few Sgt. Majors [b]of[/b] the Marine Corps that way actually. To me, being too young to really remember the original intent of the symbol and the phrase, its become bigger than Vietnam. To me its also about the bigger idea of supporting our military, especially those that participated in conflicts on out behalf. |