"A horse is a horse, of course, of course..."
Remember after the Vietnam war, when they came out with those bracelets for POW/MIA's ?????
Then there was the insistence by the foreign gov'ts that no POW's were being held after the war?
There was a mistrust of our government officials who came back and reported NO POW's.
There was a movie MISSING IN ACTION or one of the RAMBO ones where the star went back to VIETNAM to rescue POW's that OUR GOV'T SAID did not exist.
In the movie there was a SENATOR who was head of the COMMITTEE who ordered that if POW's were found, the mission was to be scrubbed, the hero left to die, etc.
FROM THE MOVIE: "Rambo returns this time in an attempt to free POW's in Vietnam. In the jungles Rambo fights with stealth and leads a gureilla warfare campaign into the hearts of communist Vietnam. Captured and tortured he does not break. After his escape he returns to his commanders in America that betrayed him and left him to die in Vietnam. With M-60 in hand the mission CO witnesses his office shot to pieces in the climatic end."
FACT:
On August 2, 1991, the United States Senate approved a resolution introduced by Sen. Robert Smith providing for the creation of a Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to serve during the remainder of the 102nd Congress.
In October, 1991, a Chairman (Sen. John Kerry), Vice-chairman (Sen. Robert Smith), and ten additional Members were appointed to the Committee. A resolution providing funding was approved. The hearings began on November 5, 1991. The Committee’s Final Report was issued on January 13, 1993.