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[igotthisguitar]

Yep, believe it or not that's what this guy says. Not just POWs from the Korean War either, but apparently Vietnam also.

Listen to what he says ... the truth IS out there ...

Lost P.O.W.s Bob Dumas

*** Friday, June 24 (Windows Media Player)

Listen here via: MP3 Stream

http://interface.audiovideoweb.com/lnk/ca25win25003/archives_2004/MOM20050624.wma/play.asx

http://www.mysteriesofthemind.com/Archives/2005/archives200506.htm

[rapier]

Listening to it now.
Seems obvious that many POWS unnacounted for still exist in NK.
America never made arrangements or negociations for the repatriation of many missing American soldiers.
A NK official stated that some 100 POWS still survive there, performing such jobs as English teachers.

Is it worth the trouble to the current administration, and in the current climate of US/n.korea relations/negociations, to press for their repatriation? I doubt it. Does anybody really care that a remnant handful of old fogies live on in Pyeongyang? NO! The paltry number of views to this thread alone bears this out.. There are more important things when it comes to US foreign policy than "rescuing" a long lost band of Americans who have long since made their lives elsewhere.

[Cthulhu]

The POW/MIA issue is nothing new, at least over Vietnam. I still remember it getting quite a lot of attention in the 80's, a possible by-product of the Reagan years. But I don't recall much attention paid to Korea in the past.


Anyone who read Soldier of Fortune as a kid would recognize this image, to say nothing of rallies and marches:

[igotthisguitar]

[igotthisguitar]

The best radio interview on this matter i've yet to hear ...

SATURDAY JUNE 4th 2005 1st Hour

BOB DUMAS ... Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs



http://www.theedgeam.com/guests/pastguest1.htm

Bob Dumas says hundreds of American POWs from the Korean War were abandoned in North Korea after hostilities ended in 1953. When it became apparent that repatriating these men would not be feasible, the U.S. government declared them, ��missing, presumed dead.��

These missing servicemen were forgotten until POW/MIA activists forced the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to form a POW/MIA subcommittee, chaired by Sen. John Kerry to investigate recent reports that POWs are still alive in Vietnam and North Korea and that the Pentagon has kept this secret from the public.

Bob Dumas unveils the mystery of why these POWs were abandoned, the likelihood some are still alive in North Korea and Southeast Asia, and why our government doesn��t want them back.

http://billdumas.com/

[igotthisguitar]

Ex-Vietnam War POWs See Their Rescue Plane
By JAMES HANNAH, Associated Press Writer
Fri May 5, 10:55 PM ET

DAYTON, Ohio - For years, they languished in prison camps in North Vietnam, fighting to keep hope alive. Then in 1973, a cargo plane later dubbed the "Hanoi Taxi" swooped down and took home a group of American prisoners of war.

Now the Air Force is retiring the aircraft that in two trips rescued 79 POWs captured during the Vietnam War. A total of 124 POWs who flew the Hanoi Taxi or other rescue planes gathered at the base Friday for two flights.

"We sat there and just kind of looked out the window and did a lot of recollection," said Bill Robinson, 62, Madisonville, Tenn., who was shot down in 1965 and freed in 1973.

"As I'm getting old, I realize I am part of history," he said. "It definitely was a re-enactment, a wonderful feeling."

The Hanoi Taxi was the first of 18 C-141s that picked up nearly 600 POWs in "Operation Homecoming." Now the last in service, it will be retired Saturday after landing near the National Museum of the United States Air Force on the base.

The former POWs on Friday were called by name, one-by-one, to board the plane, as was done when they left Vietnam.