“As an American asked to serve, I was prepared to fight, to be wounded, to be captured and even prepared to die, but I was not prepared to be abandoned. It is that one American is not worth the effort to be found, we, as Americans, have lost.”
These are the words of Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel, who for six years was prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. For three of those years, he was listed “missing in action.” During those tumultuous years, his wife Dorothy McDaniel clung to her faith, knowing that he was still alive.
