Navy Pilot Chronicles his POW Experiences (Jack Ensch)

Vietnam To Allow U.S. Team To Hunt For Missing 1,758

The United States and Vietnam have agreed to make a joint effort to resolve the lingering question of the 1,758 American military men still unaccounted for in Vietnam, American officials said today. The State Department said American and Vietnamese officials had just held four days of talks in Hanoi and

Former POW living in Caldwell to be honored for his service (William “Bill” Schwertfeger)

There were a few things that kept Lt. Col. William “Bill” Schwertfeger company in the 13 months he was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Duty. Honor. Country. “We took an oath to serve and defend the Constitution of the United States, and that was against all enemies

Former POW, who was shot down and imprisoned, will be honored in Steamboat (Robert Waggoner)

Before his plane was shot down, before spending more than six years as a prisoner of war and before he was honored during his hometown’s Fourth of July parade, Col. Robert Waggoner called Steamboat Springs home. “He was the youngest boy of eight children, and he grew up and went

Remembering Jon Reynolds

Although he graduated ahead of me – he was in the Class of 1959 and I was in the Class of 1967 – Jon Reynolds and I both received Air Force commissions through Trinity’s Air Force ROTC unit. He was shot down over North Vietnam when I was still at

Experiences as a POW in Vietnam (Hatcher, Stockdale, Coffee)

LAST was asked FEBRUARY, to make WHEN a few I remarks FIRST TOUCHED on behalf of FOOT the ex-POWs on American who soil, were Iwas asked to make a few remarks on behalf of the ex-POWs who wereembarked in the airplane with me. An ancient verse came to mind that