I vaguely remember that photo. I couldn’t find anything, either.
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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.
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 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.
Well a good number of American POW’s (mostly Airmen) were captured by the USSR and Chinese when their patrol planes were shot down. Reason I know this is my Uncle was a Radio operator on a Navy PV-2 Neptune which flew up and down the China and Soviet borders and a number of planes were shot down and his nearly was several times. Also there was a book I have in storage detailing POW’s held after WW2 by Stalin as hostages called Soldiers of Misfortune as the Soviets overran a number of Allied POW’s who were never seen again as the Germans documented they had them, but they disappeared. Same goes for Korean War POW’s who were taken into China and rare reports of American pilots in prison camps by defectors.
We definitely left POWs behind. Read “Kiss the Boys Goodbye” by Monica Jensen-Stevenson. There are photos in this excellent book.
Another point that after the Soviet Union fell it was discovered that graves were found with a Russian buried on top of an American or Allied POW buried underneath as it was documented in Soviet records of this happening. Stalin was so paranoid and angry as the Allied held back a percentage of Russians captured in the West and never returned.
1/2 dozen in this photo (Soviet connection/Hoax?):
That is what Ross Perot was trying to find out and prove. Reagan pretty much shut him dow because the CIA,FBI had convinced Reagan there were no live POW’s in vietnam. Then later, he tried with GHWB, again shut down. Perot also proclaimed the CIA had been heavily into drug trafficking from SE Asia but no one in congress was interested to looking into that. After knowing what we know today of what 3 letter agencies are not only capable of doing but willing to do so, I am not sure Ross Perot was wrong for trying to find out the truth. It has been said that the reason for him running for president was so he could find out the truth and also because GHWB was out to “get him”. Perot was convinced there was an assassination plot against him by not only our government but others as well. One thing he was right about was that giant sucking sound of jobs leaving America for Mexico.
Traitor AlGore and douchebag JohnMcCain buried the story and the evidence of U.S.POWs still alive and held in VietNam.
Hanoi wanted to use them as hostages for payment, just like they did with French prisoners after DienBienPhu, the French paid up.
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Communists were known to not return all living POWs but American's weren't the only Caucasians in SE Asia. Could have been Australian, or New Zealanders.
Might have been US, Australian, or New Zealand deserters undergoing political reeducation.
Might have been French leftovers.
Safe to say all by this time are dead.
My understanding is MIA status helps keep benefits flowing.
I remember a news reel film of a captured American pilot in North Vietnam. He had been captive for a long time and in the film he is called forward, bows to the front, then right and left.
He was never released. Anyone else remember that?
I remember the MP’s marching Robert Garwood to work in the morning at Lejeune when I worked at Elmaco. The CO would have us all go to the windows and jeer him.
The photograph may be the one form 1991 that depicted MIAs Air Force Col. John Robertson, Air Force Maj. Albro Lundy and Navy Lt. Larry Stevens.
Defense Intelligence Agency’s Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action commander, Army Col. Millard Peck resigned in February 1991 stating that the Pentagon, State Department and White House all were subverting POW-MIA search efforts.
Unfortunately, there never was a search for missing LIVE Americans, just bones!