Last week the Nixon Presidential Library held a reunion of veterans – former prisoners of war held captive in North Vietnam – who were hailed as heroes, a word that still makes them uncomfortable: 'We're not heroes. We just served our country.'
, in Yorba Linda, Calif., held a reunion of veterans – former prisoners of war held captive in North Vietnam – who were hailed as heroes, a word that still makes them uncomfortable.
Lieutenant Jack Ensch, a Navy pilot who was shot down in 1967, said,"I had a wife and three little girls back home. I certainly wanted to see them again." They communicated at great risk through sign language and a complex Morse code. Tapping code on the walls, said McGrath,"was our line of resistance."When the surviving 591 Vietnam POWs were released in 1973, they came home to ticker tape parades, much to their surprise. Plumb said,"It was somewhat confusing, you know, because, you know, we were the guys that didn't accomplish our mission.
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