Gaining strength from the past: Museum opens exhibit on POWs (William Beekman)

They are pictured cooking, laughing, seated with their pets, standing with their wives. The photographs of 30 former Vietnam war POWs portray a comforting normalcy, though their common history is anything but. Most hold no anger or bitterness.

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