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As the rebels have gained ground, they have detained thousands of prisoners of war. Their enemy, the junta, keeps few ...
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 ...
Former POWs from the Hanoi Hilton shared their experiences and the importance of the Tap Code, a communication system used to ...
Hundreds of people, many of who've been grieving for years, came together in the Omaha Metro as they searched for answers.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of three airmen killed in action in Laos in 1968 when their ...
I participated in my first act of civil disobedience in the Summer of 1971. I was 12 years old. My dad was stationed at what was known as a “SAC” base in rural Arkansas. SAC is the acronym for ...
The wristlet was a Prisoner of War (POW) bracelet from Vietnam. I haven’t thought about it in years, but as we recognize the 50-year anniversary of the end of the war, the memory has come back ...
The POW/MIA bracelet campaign was launched in the early 1970s by a Los Angeles-based student organization, Voices in Vital America, founded by Kay Hunter and Carol Bates Brown “as a way to ...
Once they exchanged the bracelet, the pair walked down to the Vietnam War Memorial and took pictures where his dad’s name was carved into the wall. “It’s pieces like little pieces of him and ...
So I thought, ‘I’m going to stop in and look at the POW Museum and talk to someone about the bracelet,'” Nazzoli added. Clark spent six years in a POW camp after his plane was shot down in 1967.