Were POWs Abandoned?

by: SRO Ted Guy

Until 1990, I believed that all the POWs were released during Operation Homecoming in 1973. I maintained this belief until 1990. In fact, I gave many, many talks around the country about the POW issue. My closing remarks were always the same: "All the POWs are home that are coming home and the rest (MIAs) are dead".

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I was a civilian POW in Vietnam from 1968-73, and held in South Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and North Viet Nam. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, of which most of a year was in a black box (a brick SH with the inside walls painted

The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides

Former POW Fights Public Access to POW/MIA Files

By Sydney Schanberg

NEW YORK (APBnews.com) — The voters who were drawn to John S. McCain in his run for the Republican presidential nomination this year often cited, as the core of his appeal, his openness and blunt candor and willingness to admit past lapses and release documents that other senators often hold back. These

Elliot D. Cohen: POW/MIA Families Alleged McCain Assault: Senate Ethics Committee Failed to Investigate

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Elliot D. Cohen

On June 20, 1996, Senator John McCain allegedly assaulted a family member of a Vietnam War prisoner of war (POW) who was missing in action (MIA), as a group of about 15 family members of POW/MIAs wat

by John LeBoutillie

Ronald Kessler's excellent piece in Newsmax on Senator John McCain's erratic and explosive temper is 100% dead on target. As someone who has known McCain for 32 years, I can unequivocally state that he should be no where near the Oval Office.

His behavior through the years tells us all we need to know: he is a spoiled brat-turned adult who demea

Amnesty By Any Other Name
By Mark Landsbaum

The mainstream media is gleeful with the latest “bi-partisan” proposal to “solve” the illegal alien problem. But those who don’t stand to directly benefit – and that’s most Americans – should be more skeptical.

Amnesty legislation introduced by Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona and Democrat Senator Ted

Within the first four days of his capture, while in his initial interrogation (26-30 October 1967) at the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, and while recovering from his shootdown wounds in the North Vietnamese military hospital (31 October 1967 through mid-

The Early Years
A complete biography of Ted Guy's early years is available at the hyperlink: http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/g/g065.htm. A summary from that document reads, "Theodore Wilson Guy was born on April 18, 1929 in Chicago, the son of Theopholus William and Edwina

Imperfect Hindsight

By WALTER ISAACSON

It is a reliable rule of statecraft that it is hard to win at the bargaining table what you are unable or unwilling to win on the battlefield. Henry Kissinger, a cold-eyed realist and practitioner of power politics, knew this well. During the four years that he negotiated America's exit from Vietnam, he regularly resisted those people -- ranging from Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the doves in the Senate -- who wan

1. PURPOSE: I, herby, request to resign my position as Chief of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW-MIA).




2. BACKGROUND:

a. Motivation. My initial acceptance of this posting was base upon two motives: first, I had heard that the job was highly contentious and extremely frustrating, that no one would volunteer for it

PENTAGON ADMITS TO CONGRESS THAT POWS ARE ALIVE IN LAOS!!!!!!!
By Mike Blair
August 26, 1991 Exclusive to the Spotlight


Submitted by Marsha Ledeman




The SPOTLIGHT has learned that the Pentagon has evidence American prisoners of war left behind in Laos from the Vietnam War are still alive and in captivity.

Reliable sources have told THE SPOTLIGHT that during a closed door session of the House Foreign Relations Committee's Subco

The following article is taken from a statement by Bill Bell (pictured right) which he gave before the Vietnam Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means in the U.S. House of Representatives on J

Leave No Man Behind

by Garnett "Bill" Bell

Leave No Man Behind:

An eyewitness account of the Vietnam War from its early stages through the last day of the Republic, 30 April 1975. A startling new look at the postwar era and the issue of America's unreturned veterans listed as POW/MIA, an i