Book: Locked Up With God – Amazon; I was shot down and rescued the first time with Capt Charlie Neel. The USAF sent now Major Charlie Neel and his wonderful wife Linda to bring my wife Sandy to meet the aircraft that flew us home from North Vietnam to Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. There the video starts as I meet my youngest brother, Peter, my Dad, my Mom, my sisters Mary Ann, Jeannie and Faith, my daughters Dawn and Sheri, and my sister’s husbands. Major Neel took this video in March of 1973. Please read my new book, “Locked Up With God,” available on Amazon, for real detail. I also speak professionally now on faith, family, teamwork, leadership and the POW and combat experiences for a wide variety of audiences.
Your Story, His Story, the Legacy: Vietnam’s POW/MIA Wives
In the late 1960s, POW/MIA wives bucked government protocol and challenged the traditional role of “military wife.” These courageous women led by Sybil Stockdale on the West Coast, Jane Denton, Louise Mulligan, and Phyllis Galanti on the East Coast and later Helene Knapp in the Interior West organized to form the National League of POW/MIA Families. The women worked with Congress and the Nixon administration to demand accounting for their husbands and pursue their safe
