In 1972, the return of missing and captured soldiers

M.I.A: Accounting for the Missing in Southeast Asia.
Washington, D. C.: National Defense University Press, 1995.

Washington, D. C.: National Defense University Press, 1995.


“There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It’s very hard in military or personal life to assure

It was a few days before Christmas, 1972, when Jill Drummond got the worst present imaginable. It was a letter from the United States Air Force telling her that her husband David Drummond was officially missing in action in Vietnam. Shock, fear and worry all followed. What she didn’t know

Amy Shively Hawk knew she had to write about her stepfather’s experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam when she heard the recordings he had made about that time. On the Department of Defense’s Prisoner of War/Missing in Action website, James Richard Shively’s name is one of 1,756 names