Chilled Wine and Warm Hearts Awaiting a P.O.W. in Jersey (Joseph Abbott)

There is a bottle of champagne in the Abbott home on Rensterville Road in Alloway, N. J., that has been chilling there since October, 1968. It will bbe opened when Maj. Joseph S. Abbott Jr. of the Air Force returns home from North Vietnam some time soon.

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A POWs words: It takes faith to survive (Jack Tomes)

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The Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Database

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Martin Stanley Frank

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