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Old 05-24-2016, 17:02   #1
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Obama in VN
Another photo op for O this time though it's with Ho. So who's next on his list. What galls me is how our government cozies up with North Vietnam without making demands for information leading to the recovery of our men that we know were in their hands during the war.

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Old 05-24-2016, 17:43   #2
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Is he staying at the Hanoi Hilton?
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Old 05-24-2016, 18:18   #3
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Is he staying at the Hanoi Hilton?
Which side?

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Old 05-24-2016, 20:20   #4
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I look at that photo and imagine the ghost of Sgt Jim Harwood standing behind them and he doesn't look happy. He never came home.

We went to 6th Group together and he visited Ms Alexander in DC to get orders cut for VN. A great guy, a good friend, and a damn good SF medic.

I hope he makes it home one day.
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Old 05-24-2016, 23:36   #5
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Between Vietnam and Cuba, I'd like to get a list of the where-abouts of the animals that tortured our guys plus a true accounting of the Americans removed from Vietnam to Cuba.
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Old 05-25-2016, 02:56   #6
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Where can I find more information about American POWs moved to Cuba?



Google led me to this....
http://www.cubanet.org/htdocs/CNews/y99/nov99/05e10.htm

... and this...
http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/lawsuit-o...oners-in-cuba/

(which references the testimony in the first link)
http://www.aim.org/guest-column/cuban-accountability/

It seems like everything starts from CAPT Bomar's testimony.


Googling "LT Clemmie McKinney" (named in the last link above) leads me to.
http://www.nationalalliance.org/bits/naf2003/030208.htm

No results for "Cleveland Harris pow".

(Meanwhile, the POW Network website doesn't seem to be working)


Googling "Mazorra (Psychiatric) Hospital" shows little more than the information in the above links.

http://www.nationalalliance.org/cuba/benge2.html
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American POWs captured in Laos were likely candidates for "transfer" to other Soviet Bloc countries, such as Cuba, since the Vietnamese considered them as "free commodities."
... among lots of other WTF information.


I keep coming back to "17 Americans were sent to Cuba" or something like that, and they're being used to refine commie interrogation techniques but there's very little information beyond that.
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Old 05-25-2016, 07:10   #7
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Other comments here not withstanding, 3? 4? consecutive presidents have done this?
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Old 05-26-2016, 05:02   #8
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Which side?

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I very surprised he didn't try on a Vietnamese Steel Pot and hop onto an anti-aircraft gun to recreate "the pose."
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