A Look Back to a True Mission Accomplished (Robert Abbott)

Come join our Deckerville area resident, Vietnam POW survivor and now retired United States Air Force Colonel Robert A. Abbott, as we step back 50 years to March 31, 1973.

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William Butler, veteran and volunteer, dies

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12 minutes with Vietnam war vet and former POW David Drummond

It was a few days before Christmas, 1972, when Jill Drummond got the worst present imaginable. It was a letter from the United States Air Force telling her that her husband David Drummond was officially missing in action in Vietnam. Shock, fear and worry all followed. What she didn’t know

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