Yet that same calling led her to become America's first female prisoner of war in Vietnam. To this day, Vietti remains the only American woman POW whose fate remains unknown. According to the ...

Indeed, from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, 1971, more than 100 American Vietnam veterans and 16 civilians gathered in a Detroit hotel to testify about the war crimes they had witnessed in South Vietnam.

American prisoners spent years living in these uninhabitable cells enduring the pain and suffering oftentimes inflicted upon them by the Vietnamese guards. With the end of the war and the release ...

The event had been planned by the North Vietnamese to win support for their cause. It was staged to produce film footage that would convince the world that the American prisoners were war ...

She had become very active in the movement to find a way to have the POWs in Vietnam released. She later was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first deputy assistant secretary of the ...