Author(s): H. Bruce Franklin
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 225
City: Brooklyn
Acknowledgments - ix
Preface - xi
1. PRISONERS OF MYTH - 1
A National Religion? - 3
But Are There Live POWs? - 11
Counting the Unaccounted For - 11
What Does "POW/MIA" Mean? - 16
Full Accounting and Live POWs - 19
Prisoners or Deserters? - 23
The French Experience - 24
"Discrepancies" - 27
Government Conspiracy - 34
2. PRISONERS OF THE WAR - 37
The Matrix of the POW/MIA Issue - 39
The "Go Public" Campaign - 49
Enter VIVA and the Bracelets - 54
Four More Years of War for the POW/MIAs - 57
Peace for the POWs - 60
Counting on Discrepancies - 64
The POWs in War and Peace - 74
3. THE MISSING OF PEACE - 77
War Remains - 79
VIVA and the National League of Families Continue the War - 82
The Pentagon's New Math - 87
The Case of the Disappearing POWs - 93
The Multiplication of the POWs -96
What Did Happen to the Missing Men? - 99
Cambodia - 105
Laos - 108
Vietnam: Or What the Garwood Case Really Shows - 113
"Live Sightings" - 117
Why? - 120
Reparations and POWs - 122
4. MYTHMAKING IN AMERICA - 127
Crucifixion and Resurrection - 129
Hollywood Heroes I: Bo Gritz and Ronald Reagan - 136
Hollywood Heroes II: Gene Hackman and Chuck Norris - 140
Hollywood Heroes III: Rambo - 150
The Plots Thicken - 156
5. STILL MISSING - 167
Recovery - 169
A Story of the Missing and the Missing Story - 170
"POW/MIA" by W. D. Ehrhart - 177
APPENDIX A: From the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet-Nam, Signed in Paris, January 27, 1973 - 181
APPENDIX B: The Secret Nixon Letter - 182
Glossary - 187
Notes - 189
Index - 217
