First heroes : the POWs left behind in Vietnam /
The result of five years of research, First Heroes untangles an intricate web of information and ultimately concludes that the prisoners of war that were held captive in Southeast Asia were forgotten or ignored by their own country. Author Rod Colvin crisscrossed the country interviewing military an...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a First heroes : |b the POWs left behind in Vietnam / |c Rod Colvin. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Map; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1 Taking Off the Bracelets; 2 The Missing in Action/ Prisoners of War; 3 Refugee Sightings; 4 Refugee Letters; 5 Ngo Phi Hung; 6 The Government Focus on Refugee Sightings; 7 The Mortician; 8 The Nhom Marrot Mission; 9 U.S. Government Studies on the Pow Question; 10 A Review of Communist Trends on Pows; 11 Returned Pows Remember ... ; Mia/pow Families; 12 Earl Hooper, Sr.; 13 Jean Macdonald; 14 Jerry Debruin; 15 Robert Cressman; 16 Sarah Frances Shay; 17 George Shine; 18 Vince Donahue; 19 Maureen Dunn. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 20 Marian Shelton21 Lynn Standerwick; 22 Sue Sullivan; 23 Kay Bosiljevac; 24 Dermot Foley; Afterword; Bibliography; Appendix; About The Author. | |
| 520 | |a The result of five years of research, First Heroes untangles an intricate web of information and ultimately concludes that the prisoners of war that were held captive in Southeast Asia were forgotten or ignored by their own country. Author Rod Colvin crisscrossed the country interviewing military and government officials, veterans, returned POWs, political figures, journalists, and members of the National League of Families and the National Forget-Me-Not Association and balances hard facts with the dramatic personal accounts of parents, wives, brothers, sisters, and children who have waged a d. | ||
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