Some Were Left Behind – MIA
In this 1992 interview, Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel, who was a Vietnam War POW for six years, documents how thousands of Americans were left behind, many still alive even today.
In this 1992 interview, Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel, who was a Vietnam War POW for six years, documents how thousands of Americans were left behind, many still alive even today.
Although the Vietnam conflict lasted for 20 years – from 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in 1975 – the United States government never officially declared war. Over 3 million people perished in the conflict, and hundreds of American and Vietnamese citizens were held in prison camps as unofficial POWs. The North Vietnamese captured American troops and the South Vietnamese held hundreds of North Vietnamese soldiers. These POWs were treated in different but perhaps equally
Vietnam War veteran Rod Knutson talks about his experiences. Knutson served in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines. He was born and raised in Billings, Montana, graduating from Billings Senior High in 1956. He was one of about 651 prisoners of war who returned to the United States alive. Reports peg the number who died in prison at around 114. He spent 2,673 days as a prisoner of war — more than seven years —
