LewWaters
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 Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:16 am Post subject: Hanoi opens 3 MIA search areas, releases letters |
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While I am glad they are opening more MIA sites, reading they took personal letters off of a dead G.I., opened them and seeing they were personal and of no military values, used the for propaganda and have held on to them all of these years bothers me.
It wasn't a soldier keeping the letters but the government.
http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/225126/Hanoi-opens-3-MIA-search-areas--releases-letters-.html?isap=1&nav=5021
Also: | Quote: | Quang Thanh presented four letters written by Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty of the 101st Airborne Division, who was killed in action in 1969.
Among the letters found on his body were two to his mother: "I definitely will take R&R, I don't care where so long as I get a rest, which I need so badly, soon," Flaherty wrote. "If Dad calls, tell him I got too close to being dead but I'm O.K. I was real lucky. I'll write again soon."
During the war, Vietnamese forces took Flaherty's letters and used excerpts for propaganda broadcasts. |
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-06-04/panetta-vietnam/55379398/1
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