LETTERS

Nation needs to account for the POWs left behind

Debbie Cutler

Friday is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. It will probably go largely unnoticed.

The POW/MIA symbol came into prominence during the Vietnam War, when we were trying to get our captured servicemen back from the North Vietnamese. In the early '90s, a book called "Kiss the Boys Goodbye" was written about all the proof available about live POWs left behind when some were brought home. Now this year, another book has come out called "Abandoned in Place," which also details information about live POWs left behind.

Much information surfaced in the 1990s about live-sighting reports, but they were all allowed to go unexamined or given a cursory examination. The common thread with all these sightings was that there was a government policy to make sure no substantial effort was made to return these men to their families, a view to debunk.

The name that repeatedly surfaced as the major roadblock to a full accounting of these documented survivors was John McCain. Why?

Debbie Cutler, Mesa