POW/MIAs
It's time to bring them home.
2,500 US servicemen are still unaccounted for from the Vietnam war. Some were KIA, some were MIA, and some were POWs known to be alive at the end of the war. They all have two things in common, they were willing to risk their lives in the service of their country, and they were all abandoned at the end of the war.
Perhaps the only thing more shameful than the way the soldiers that came home were treated, is the treatment of those left behind.
They have been abandoned by the government and forgotten by their countrymen. They deserve better.
They have been remembered only by their families and those with whom they served. The families of the missing have been trying since the end of the war to get answers from the government as to the whereabouts of their loved ones. There has been little progress made in getting these answers. There is something we can all do to help. If we join our voices with theirs someone will have to hear us. The government will no longer be able to ignore our questions and they will have to come up with answers.
All MIA/POWs not returned at the end of the war have since been declared dead by the government. Even though there was ample evidence to indicate there were still POWs alive in Southeast Asia. Maybe after all these years there are none left alive. But maybe they are. The point is how can we take the chance? Put yourself in their shoes, think of how they must feel.
The governments in Southeast Asia know where these men are, and it's time the Government of the United States demanded their return. And that won't happen until there is a public outcry.
Anyone with access to a paper and pencil, e-mail, fax machine, or a telephone can help. Write or call the president, your sentators, your representative, ask what is being done to bring these men home. And keep asking until we stop getting the same generic answers and we start getting action.
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