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MIA Facts Site
by Joe Schlatter
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This site is published to provide facts about the issue of Americans who remain "missing in action" (MIA) from the Vietnam War. At the conclusion of the Vietnam War, 2,583 Americans did not return. A vast mythology has built up around what really happened to these individuals. Mis-information, pseudo-history, deliberate fabrication are rampant. As a result, myths are regularly proclaimed to be fact.
The Myths:
 | Not all US POWs were released by their captors at the end of the Vietnam War. |
| The U.S. government knew that all POWs were not released. |
| U.S. POWs remain in captivity today. |
| There is a conspiracy within the U. S. government to hide the continued imprisonment of Americans and, whenever the truth emerges, it is debunked. |
| The U.S. government is doing nothing to account for or recover
missing men. |
The Facts:
| All U.S. POWs captured during the Vietnam War were
released, either at Operation Homecoming (spring, 1973) or earlier.
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| No U. S. prisoners of war have been abandoned by the U. S. government. | ||
| No U.S POWs remained in captivity after the conclusion of Operation Homecoming. | ||
| There is no conspiracy within the U. S. government to conceal the abandonment of prisoners of war (who were not abandoned in the first place). |
| No U.S. POWs from Indochina were taken to the Soviet Union, China, or any other third country. |
| The U.S. government has been -- since well before the end of the Vietnam War -- exerting all possible efforts to recover or account for missing men. That effort continues today and is unprecedented in the history of warfare. |
Those who promote these false claims have produced a vast array of half-truth, untruth, hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, personal attacks, and mythology. The accumulated effect of years of nonsense has been exactly what one would expect:
The big lie has been accepted as truth in some quarters.
So, what do I know about it?
My Credentials
I am Joe Schlatter, Colonel, U. S. Army, Retired. I retired on 1 April 1995. My involvement in the MIA issue came during two assignments:
| February 1986 - July 1990
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| July 1993 - March 1995: Deputy Director, Defense POW-MIA Office |
Vietnam Veteran
2/13 Field Artillery
February 1969 - February 1970
On this site are over 75 articles that deal with various aspects of the MIA issue.
The views presented here are my own and do not
represent an official position of the United States Government or of the Department of
Defense. None of the material presented here has been cleared by the Department of
Defense.
This link is an article that describes the sources used for this
site.
I write in a conversational style and try draw in all facts and matters bearing on a subject. I am writing from memory, without notes, and I do not have total recall. If I do not recall a specific item, I contact others and attempt to determine the details. If I cannot determine the details, I will so indicate.
If you want to cut through the details and get to the point, click here to see my proposal for how to get back to reality.
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Current news :
(Entries here will be deleted after 60 days.)
| On February 24, 2001, an individual signing the name "Paul Rifenberg" left an uniformed and basically dumb comment on the MIA Facts Site Guestbook. Here is a response -- though I don't know why I bother. |
| February 22, 2001: Nothing in the way of breaking news to report, so, I'll just leave these items in place. |
| Rich Daly, of Minnesota Won't Forget, has for some time been spreading lies and misinformation. It caught up with him. Read about it here. |
| You will not believe the message that dropped into my inbox on September 7!! Read it here -- warning -- it's long but it's a real hoot!! Update: On September 13, the wacky messages continued. Start here. |
| Glory Hallelujah !! It's happened !! The truth about the MIA issue has slipped out. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW-MIA Affairs Bob Jones was quoted speaking the truth. Here it is. (August 18, 2000) |
| August 5, 2000: The full text of DPMO's study on the Vietnamese collection and storage of the remains of Americans is avialable online at: http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/special/vietnam_collection_study.htm . The study is 3.8MB and is in PDF format. |
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As part of my home page, I have a Home Page Bookstore, associated with Amazon.com, the online bookstore. Click here to go to the Bookstore; from there, you can go to my selected books on the MIA issue and, if you desire, you can use the indicated link in the bookstore to order a book online from Amazon.com.
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This page was last updated on:
September 13, 2006
Check back from time to time to read new items; I will post links to new
articles on the What's New page.
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