Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...MANY PRISONERS COULD HAVE COME OUT? The U.S. estimated that anywhere from 15 to 70 P.O.W.s would be found at Son Tay, and there was plenty of space in the HH-53 helicopters for them. (In a pinch, as many as 60 people can be squeezed inside an HH-53.) The U.S. knows definitely that 339 Americans are in North Vietnamese hands; about 400 others are listed as missing in action in North Viet...
WHAT IF THE P.O.W.S HAD BEEN THERE? One former P.O.W., Specialist Four Coy Tinsley, said that he felt that if there had been prisoners at Son Tay, the guards "would probably have annihilated them and moved out." The Ivory Coast planners obviously felt that surprise would stun the enemy. "They never had time to get together," Lieut. Petrie said. "They never expected an American force to come blooping down on them." Had the prisoners been there, though, there would have been many more guards?and their rifles could have damaged the American helicopters seriously. Indeed, some critics of the operation...
...extra reason to despair for those whose men are identified by the Pentagon as missing in action. North Viet Nam has yet to release a complete list of the Americans it holds captive, so in some cases the family has not known for three or four years whether son, husband or father is still alive. Timothy Bodden has been missing since June 1967. Says his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Bodden of Downers Grove, Ill.: "Even after 3½ years, I still find myself losing control and breaking down. There is an answer to what's happened to him, but you just...
...over my life"?but imprisonment with no certain end is not graspable, a half-curtain. The price now, even with the knowledge that her husband is alive, is still too high for her and, she thinks, for the country. She applauds last week's rescue raid on the Son Tay P.O.W. camp ?"It's the first time we've seen anything constructive done"?but decries the situation in which almost all other public efforts on the prisoners' behalf have been the work of "women and children." The disillusion of the prisoners' wives "is coming to a boiling...
...real dream was to die a hero's death for Japan. He was born Kimi-take Hiraoka, son of an aristocratic samurai family, and was imbued with a warrior code that apotheosized complete control over mind and body and loyalty to the Emperor. At 18, he felt an almost erotic fascination with the death that, he was certain, awaited him when he would be drafted. But his wish to die for the Emperor was thwarted by a weak body and a frail constitution...