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Author : Michael Joe Allen Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press Page : 449 pages File Size : 52,5 Mb Release : 2009 Category : History ISBN : 9780807832615
Until the Last Man Comes Home by Michael Joe Allen Pdf
Reveals how wartime loss in the Vietnam War transformed U.S. politics, arguing that the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate.
Author : Michael J. Allen Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press Page : 448 pages File Size : 47,5 Mb Release : 2009-09-18 Category : History ISBN : 0807895318
Until the Last Man Comes Home by Michael J. Allen Pdf
Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end. Throughout the war's last years and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate. Though millions of Americans and Vietnamese took part in that effort, POW and MIA families and activists dominated it. Insisting that the war was not over "until the last man comes home," this small, determined group turned the unprecedented accounting effort against those they blamed for their suffering. Allen demonstrates that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy after 1968. Mixing political, cultural, and diplomatic history, Until the Last Man Comes Home presents the full and lasting impact of the Vietnam War in ways that are both familiar and surprising.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Publisher : Unknown Page : 264 pages File Size : 48,8 Mb Release : 1994 Category : History ISBN : UCR:31210014050312
Access to Classified Live Sighting Information Concerning POW/MIAs in Southeast Asia--is New Legislation Needed? by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs Pdf
War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain or soften their loss. Occasionally the myths of the defeated center on prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs) to justify the lost struggle, mute national guilt, and sometimes even reject the reality of defeat itself. Traumatic Defeat takes a close, comparative look at two cases of this kind of mythmaking—in West Germany in the wake of World War II and in the United States after the Vietnam War. The book examines a specific case of mythmaking that revolves around the ambiguity of missing men and the trauma resulting from their unresolved fates. The “secret camp myth,” so called for the covert facilities where the missing supposedly survive, shared certain features in postwar Germany and America. Both nations suffered extreme trauma and struggled to find redemptive elements in their wartime experiences; both focused on POWs and MIAs to minimize their guilt and recast themselves as victims of wars they had started. Author Patrick Gallagher examines the similarities between West Germany’s myth aimed at men lost in the Soviet Union and America’s myth directed at those missing in Southeast Asia. The differences, however, are instructive, particularly the longevity of the American myth involving a few thousand soldiers compared with the relative short life of the more plausible German version involving millions. In search of the nature and meaning of these myths, Gallagher takes us into the wars themselves, the circumstances in which soldiers went missing, and the manner in which each nation framed its losses according to its own political, ideological, and historical needs. Traumatic Defeat, the first in-depth comparative study of this phenomenon, reveals how myths conjured in the trauma of military defeat can distort and dominate national conversations on the history of warfare, aftermath, and loss.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee Publisher : Unknown Page : 872 pages File Size : 52,8 Mb Release : 1996 Category : History ISBN : UCR:31210013773922
United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee Publisher : Unknown Page : 192 pages File Size : 47,6 Mb Release : 1997 Category : Korea (North) ISBN : PSU:000031267557
Accounting for POW/MIA's from the Korean War and the Vietnam War by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee Pdf
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs Publisher : Unknown Page : 198 pages File Size : 49,7 Mb Release : 1993 Category : History ISBN : UCR:31210014954190
An Enormous Crime by Bill Hendon,Elizabeth A. Stewart Pdf
The dramatic history of living American soldiers left in Vietnam, and the first full account of the circumstances that left them there An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of twenty-five years of research by former Congressman Bill Hendon and attorney Elizabeth A. Stewart, An Enormous Crime brilliantly exposes the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973 and what these men have endured since. Despite hundreds of postwar sightings and intelligence reports telling of Americans being held captive throughout Vietnam and Laos, Washington did nothing. And despite numerous secret military signals and codes sent from the desperate POWs themselves, the Pentagon did not act. Even in 1988, a U.S. spy satellite passing over Sam Neua Province, Laos, spotted the twelve-foot-tall letters "USA" and immediately beneath them a huge, highly classified Vietnam War-era USAF/USN Escape & Evasion code in a rice paddy in a narrow mountain valley. The letters "USA" appeared to have been dug out of the ground, while the code appeared to have been fashioned from rice straw (see jacket photograph). Tragically, the brave men who constructed these codes have not yet come home. Nor have any of the other American POWs who the postwar intelligence shows have laid down similar codes, secret messages, and secret authenticators in rice paddies and fields and garden plots and along trails in both Laos and Vietnam. An Enormous Crime is based on open-source documents and reports, and thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery, as well as author interviews and personal experience. It is a singular work, telling a story unlike any other in our modern history: ugly, harrowing, and true. From the Bay of Pigs, where John and Robert Kennedy struck a deal with Fidel Castro that led to freedom for the Bay of Pigs prisoners, to the Paris Peace Accords, in which the authors argue Kissinger and Nixon sold American soldiers down the river for political gain, to a continued reluctance to revisit the possibility of reclaiming any men who might still survive, we have a story untold for decades. And with An Enormous Crime we have for the first time a comprehensive history of America's leaders in their worst hour; of life-and-death decision making based on politics, not intelligence; and of men lost to their families and the country they serve, betrayed by their own leaders.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee Publisher : Unknown Page : 272 pages File Size : 41,6 Mb Release : 1996 Category : United States ISBN : PSU:000025923391
United States and Vietnamese Government Knowledge and Accountability for U.S. POW/MIA's by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee Pdf