July 8th, 2005  
bulldogg
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03, you can believe what you want. I know people who were in Vietnam I met at Firebase Indy back in the early 90's that tell this story and others far more treacherous in relation to the way the US government handled the MIA-POWS in Vietnam even prior to the 75 pull out. But name calling?

Starker, he was upset because of this. As he saw it following orders to torture prisoners into giving up vital intel was a legitmate activity. Much the same as what is rumoured and mildly substantiated to be happening in the "war on terror" today. But the abandoning of prisoners and claiming they were all accounted for was unpardonable. A treasonous act abandoning soldiers to rot away in enemy hands. That's why he cried.
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