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Lt. Col. Jack Van Loan, left, home after almost six years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, accepts a POW bracelet bearing his name while greeting a crowd of nearly 2,000 at Davis-Monthan AFB ...
Calls and emails have poured in, she said. So many people -- whether they knew her brother, wore his name on a POW bracelet or only knew his story -- have been in contact.
Then, after the U.S. troops left Vietnam and the POWs were sent home, a telegram informed the Boyers that Alan was not on the list. "I just Š I couldn't believe it," Judi said.
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, many Americans wore simple metal bracelets in honor of soldiers declared prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA) in Vietnam. Sgt. 1st Class James ...
TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) — Vietnam War veteran, prisoner of war (POW) and author Carlyle “Smitty” Harris died on Sunday. He died ...
Hundreds of people, many of who've been grieving for years, came together in the Omaha Metro as they searched for answers.
McDaniel was shot down and captured over North Vietnam in May 1967 and was brutally tortured as a POW at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison.
There are 1,571 U.S. service members still missing from the Vietnam War. This tribute highlights the ongoing efforts to ...
GRAND FORKS — When Kathy Strong, at age 12, received a bracelet on Christmas Day 1972, with the name of a Green Beret soldier who was declared missing in action in Vietnam, she vowed to wear it ...
Both parties should recognize that RCV rewards candidates who build broad coalitions rather than appeal to narrow factions — ...
GIMPO, South Korea (AP) — Prisoners of war held for decades after the fighting stopped. Civilian abductees. Defectors. Separated families.