According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ... worked to treat those afflicted with leprosy within South Vietnam's largest ethnic minority, the Montagnards - a French phrase for "mountain ...

For many Americans, the POWs' return home marks the final chapter of the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. South Vietnam falls to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. After thirty years of ...

In many ways, the violent experiences of the approximately 200,000 to 300,000 communist prisoners in South Vietnam can be compared to those of McCain. On both sides, prisoners were tortured ...

Captain Richard Stratton did more than serve his country in the Vietnam War — the prisoner ... as saying about his time in captivity as a POW. “We were blessed; we were Americans.” ...

South Dakotan Douglas Brent Hegdahl ... The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton, is out this month. “He somehow figured out the way ...

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 ...

Dick Stratton, a Navy pilot and a prisoner of the Vietnam War who endured more than ... She rallied public opinion to focus on prisoners of war, POWs, and even met with Ron and Nancy Reagan.

Under a massive orange- and yellow-striped tent erected on the South ... The POWs' response to the toast was led by Air Force Col. John P. Flynn, who had been held in North Vietnam since 1967.