First Heroes
eBook - PDF

First Heroes

The POWs Left Behind in Vietnam

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

First Heroes

The POWs Left Behind in Vietnam

About this book

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 difficult battle for the truth about their loved ones. This chronicle is as much a testament to the faith and unending hope of the family members as it is the story of the men themselves.

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Information

Publisher
Addicus Books
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781940495156
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Map
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Taking Off the Bracelets
  10. 2 The Missing in Action/ Prisoners of War
  11. 3 Refugee Sightings
  12. 4 Refugee Letters
  13. 5 Ngo Phi Hung
  14. 6 The Government Focus on Refugee Sightings
  15. 7 The Mortician
  16. 8 The Nhom Marrot Mission
  17. 9 U.S. Government Studies on the Pow Question
  18. 10 A Review of Communist Trends on Pows
  19. 11 Returned Pows Remember…
  20. Mia/pow Families
  21. 12 Earl Hooper, Sr.
  22. 13 Jean Macdonald
  23. 14 Jerry Debruin
  24. 15 Robert Cressman
  25. 16 Sarah Frances Shay
  26. 17 George Shine
  27. 18 Vince Donahue
  28. 19 Maureen Dunn
  29. 20 Marian Shelton
  30. 21 Lynn Standerwick
  31. 22 Sue Sullivan
  32. 23 Kay Bosiljevac
  33. 24 Dermot Foley
  34. Afterword
  35. Bibliography
  36. Appendix
  37. About The Author