Pows
The darkest days in American history began when the United States agreed to enter the Vietnamese Civil War. The result of the war would leave Americans with a bitter taste of war for several years. A pilot is making his final approach on the target, he drops his payload and then the plane is hit by a surface to air missile. The plane has been crippled and the pilot realizes he is going down behind enemy lines in a hostile area. It is hard for someone to imagine being this fighter pilot flying a bombing raid on Hanoi, and knowing he could die at any moment. But the Vietnam War, the POWs experienced a fate that was worse than death. "As a result of the Vietnamese treatment of American POWs the men were headed for a living hell," said Jeremiah Denton, a longtime prisoner of the Vietcong in Hanoi. One must take a closer look at the prison camps where the POWs were kept, the experiences the POWs shared there, and then look at the information about the men left behind to find out if it is fact or fiction. Vietnamese prison camps had the worst conditions that anyone could possibly be expected to live in for any period of time. Their prison system was split up into two kinds of camps. The first kind of camps was built throughout
Although the prisoners lived in horrible conditions for several years, the majority of the POWs that came home were in decent shape psychologically. In all the cases of POWs that came home, only three have died. The rest of the POWs blended into society fairly well despite the extreme anguish they endured. McGraph, John. Prisoners Of War. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1975. Baker, James. "America in Asia." Foreign Affair, 70 (Winter 1991/92): 1-18.
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Approximate Pages = 21 (250 words per page double spaced)
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