Posted on 03/14/2025 8:25:54 PM PDT by MAGA2017
In the early to mid-1980's I watched an episode of ABC's Nightline hosted by Ted Koppel. The topic was on the plausibility that there were still Americans being held captive or were held captive after the war in Vietnam.
I don't remember who the guests on the program were. What I do remember is a black & white photo that the program showed. It was a photo of a half-dozen or so Caucasian-looking men standing together. They appeared to be wearing what could have old worn uniforms or work clothes. I believe on one corner or side of the photo there was some cyrillic script. Supposedly this was a photo of American POWs.
I didn't really believe it at the time. The men in the photo didn't look American to me. Most, if not all of them had mustaches. They had a Eastern European or Slavic look to them. Think Lech Wałęsa.
But I'm curious what the story is with that photo. When and where was it taken? Who were those men? I've been looking online for it. But I cannot find it or any reference to it anywhere. Does anyone else here remember this? I'm pretty sure this photo was also published in newspapers around this time.
I vaguely remember that photo. I couldn’t find anything, either.
ever heard of AI
I do not think AI was prevalent in the 1980s, if in use at all. Computers were huge mainframes and there were not sophisticated graphics.
I think I remember the photo, plus rumors that some Americans stayed purposely.
I think there were live Viet Nam era POWs still alive there in the mid-80s.
Chuck Norris rescued them. I remember watching the documentary.
Cute.
They had Russians and Soviets fighting with the North during the war and of course contractors and such, off duty Russian military, KGB, intelligence people, technicians, all sorts of whites available for photos.
I doubt we would find it on the internet. Maybe newspapers and books.
your loss
In the 80’s, I had a Sound Blaster (computer sound card) that came with its own “A.I.”.
Can’t remember the name, but it would physically talk to you, and answer questions (obviously fully scripted, and most answers didn’t make sense to the question, lol). I think it was Dr. something.
(It could have been the early 90’s.. I remember its competition sound card was called AdLib.)
My loss what? That made no sense.
What did you play it in?
I definitely remember pictures that supposedly showed POWs, cant claim to have seen that one. I cant claim to remember that particular one.
Then again, it seems that there were certain things that were reported in one region but not another like a fake story was being tested.
There is footage of a “terrorist boot camp” that you may have seen. There are two guys in that lighter colored almost white middle eastern type garb with pants and a dish towel on their face and one of the ones in the black moslem ninja outfit. The camera is down in the sand, the two lighter trainees run across beams over our left and right shoulders but the MEninja almost falls on his beam right in front of us.
I dont remember if I first saw it in the late 80s or early 90s but I saw it over and over until rather more recently. One time its in Syria, another time its in Lebanon or Iran, Im pretty sure it was once somewhere here in the US.
Same 3 terrorist trainees running the same course. Over 20 or 30 years of falling repeatedly you would think that the MEninjas shins would be really banged up. If youre still in basic training after 20 years you should probably consider a new career field.
Its weird, its almost like none of that was true.
I remember hearing a number of other stories that it seems no one else in the country heard. No, I didnt misunderstand, it was a whole segment where the information was repeated more than once. Afterwards no one else remembers hearing that or documentation afterwards says that this story couldnt be true.
I dont think its a particularly new phenomena. There was someone that would deliver news around here on the radio and some of the old timers remembered hearing some rather unusual things. My dad remembered the daily stories of so many tanks being destroyed during the war that Germany must have been made of entire mountains of wrecked hulls. Speaking of hulls, the day it was reported that we sank the German “flat top” was one of excitement at the time at least it was until they realized Germany didnt have an aircraft carrier.
Have you ever seen any of the stories about mysteries of stories that ran in newspapers about ships sinking the day before they sank in one paper but no where else or maybe a detailed story on a ship was reported as having returned in one place but then the ship was reported missing?
The farther you do back the stranger some of the stories get.
Im convinced that a great deal of what has been reported since the news industry has started was entirely nonsense with an occasional accidental telling of truths that no one was supposed to know.
This was not AI. This was sometime back in the early 1980s.
"What did you play it in?"
I’m really surprised that I can’t find anything about it so far. There must be a blog, a YouTube channel or some site out there about POWs that mentions it. I know I didn’t imagine it.
My dad served in Korea. He said very little to me about his experience there. But one thing he did say was that one of his big fears he and his friends had was being captured and being taken to the Soviet Union. He more or less said that it was known that some captured Americans were taken by train into the Soviet Union and never seen again.
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