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...return of our hostages was stirring and emotional-and rightly so. However, I thought about the Viet Nam vets and how they must feel seeing this outpouring of love and comparing it with the "welcome" they received...
...Viet Nam War veteran, I wonder if most of the 50,000 lives that were lost in Viet Nam would have been spared if our citizens had cared then as they do now about their fellow Americans...
Robert Garwood dropped out of high school in Indianapolis at the age of 17, joined the Marines and went to Viet Nam as a driver. In 1965, just eleven days before he was due to be reassigned, Private First Class Robert Garwood disappeared near Danang. For almost 14 years he remained in Viet Nam-a prisoner, he claimed. He escaped after slipping a note to a Finnish economist in a Hanoi bar, and in March 1979 Garwood returned to the U.S. Home free, he thought. Other P.O.W.s, however, soon accused Garwood of being a deserter and a traitor...
Nearly 13 weeks after his trial began, Garwood, now 34, was found guilty last week by a jury of five Viet Nam veterans at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was convicted of collaboration and of assaulting an American prisoner. Gustav Mehrer, one of the nine former P.O.W.s called by the prosecution, testified that Garwood kept a stack of propaganda leaflets, wore an enemy uniform and held a rifle. Said Mehrer: "His actions were Vietnamese. He would hum and giggle like them. He would squat. He was a white Vietnamese...
...personnel for training and the maintenance of sophisticated equipment, raised edgy questions about the wisdom of direct U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran conflict. The junta is already sensitive to accusations that it is being propped up by the U.S., and to comparisons with the U.S.-backed regime in South Viet...