A Man Apart: Chico native is only Butte County Vietnam war POW (Anthony Andrews)

The story of a small, handmade American flag that gave…(John Dramesi)

“Freedom has a taste to those who fight and almost die that the protected will never know.” –A POW saying left on a wall in the Hoa-Lo Prison known to Westerners as the “Hanoi Hilton.” A small American flag on display at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum was a patriotic

A Former P.O.W. Relates His Experiences in Hanoi (Norris Overly)

Norris Overly, a 41‐ year‐old Air Force Colonel from Detroit, is one of nine men in the United States who know what it is like to live in a North Vietnamese prison camp.

POWs and Politics: How Much does Hanoi Really Know A Paper Presented on 19 April 1996 at the Center for the Study of the Vietnam Conflict Symposium “After the Cold War: Reassessing Vietnam,” at Texas Tech University

The recent diplomatic recognition of Vietnam, along with the lifting of the economic embargo, offers an opportunity to re-examine one of the most pernicious legacies of the Vietnam War, the POW/MIA dilemma. Two decades after the war ended, the POW/MIA issue continues to divide Americans in a manner reminiscent of

A former prisoner of war testifying today accused Marine… (Gustav A. Mehrer)

P.O. W.’s Felt Their Mission Was to Resist (Alan Lurie)

Everybody says we had nothing to do, but we did have something to do, we had an obligation to fulfill,” Lieut. Col. Alan Lurie said recently. “That was to follow the Code of Conduct, to resist the North Vietnamese attempts to exploit us. And that was full‐time job in that