Betrayal recounts the 30-year saga of one man’s journey fighting to gain freedom for US prisoners of the Vietnam War, who were still in captivity for decades after the war’s end. That fight led him to work as an advocate for all US veterans against the injustices suffered by those who had honorably served.
Recounts the capture and imprisonment of Al Stafford, relating the torture, humiliation, and loneliness he endured, how he resisted the Vietnamese efforts to break him, and his life in the U.S. following his release Post Views: 778
“Abandoned in Place” provides a snapshot of the Vietnam POW/MIA issue. From the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, in January 1973, ending American involvement in the war in Southeast Asia to the “dysfunctional” POW/MIA accounting effort of 2014. With the period 1980 -1981 a clear line in the sand.
Relates the experiences of a former Vietnam POW’s time in a prison camp Post Views: 775
By the time of the Vietnam War era, the “Mexican American Generation” had made tremendous progress both socially and politically. However, the number of Mexican Americans in comparison to the number of white prisoners of war (POWs) illustrated the significant discrimination and inequality the Chicano population faced in both military
Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger’s first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and imprisonment in Laos during the Vietnam War. CDR Bedinger recounts a tale of heroism, endurance, and the shared struggle in the fight for freedom, paralleled with the
