Bergdahl swap<\/a> had me thinking about a book I read a while ago, about North Korea, and the fact that it\u2019s now been proven that North Korea held onto a great many South Korean POWs after the war ended, in prison camps and later released, but unable to return home. \u00a0South Korea for many years denied their existence because it would imperil their \u201csunshine policy\u201d of making nice with the NORKs, but now there are organization which actively try to rescue aging POWs through their underground networks, with some success. <\/p>\nAnd this book \u2014 sorry, I can\u2019t recall the title and would have to make a trip to the library to flip through the various books on the topic \u2014 also says that there are, or were, at least, American POWs in the same situation, either in North Korea or shipped off to Siberian gulags.<\/p>\n
We also continue to fly the POW\/MIA flag. \u00a0Quite some time ago now, I mentioned to my dad that it struck me as odd to still fly it, long after POWs have been released, and he said that he believes that North Vietnam didn\u2019t release all their prisoners, and may still have some \u2014 and he\u2019s not usually one to buy into conspiracy theories. <\/p>\n
(* Mind you, I\u2019m too young to have experienced the \u201cVietnam Era\u201d first-hand.)<\/p>\n
The Wikipedia article on Vietnam POWs paints their searchers as loons and con artists. \u00a0But it seems to me to be entirely possible for the U.S. to have, indeed, left men behind when we moved from wars where we were the unquestioned victor to ones in which we didn\u2019t have control over enemy territory afterwards. <\/p>\n
As usual, I\u2019ll add: \u00a0what do you think?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(This is where it would be really helpful to have more readers, say, by an order of magnitude or two, to initiate an extended discussion. \u00a0But anyway:) This whole bit with the Bergdahl swap had me thinking about a book I read a while ago, about North Korea, and the fact that it\u2019s now been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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