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Summary: Great primer on Vietnam
Review: It's good that this piece of #$%^$ is out of print. Who ever told this lady she knew how to write. She ignores the facts and makes up her own fictional representation and tries to pass it off as the truth. Avoid this one and anything else this non-writer comes up with.
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Summary: A real myth
Review: Keating ignores solid documentation on POW/MIAs and combines old Defense Department lines with unsubstantiated rumors. Her comments about the key area of satellite imagery and pilot distress symbols ignore basic published facts. All in all a total misrepresentation of the POW/MIA issue.Rich Daly Researcher and Board member of the Minnesota League of POW/MIA Families and Minnesota Won't Forget POW/MIA
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Summary: Solid and important research for every American
Review: Ms. Keating has produced a first class expose of the deep and tragic situation that surrounds the subject of P.O.W.-M.I.A's of the Vietnam War. She shows with astute research and a concise writing style the way that so many money hungry glory seekers have perpetuated the myth of men left behind in Vietnam. It is a shame that many patriotic Americans have been taken in by this sham, kept alive by those more interested in money than in the lives of servicemen. It is time to face reality and lay aside this fiction. The evidence presented in this book should leave no one in doubt. We owe it to the men and women who served to honor the memory of their sacrifice and move on to a new day.
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Summary: Exposes the Samply and Limbaugh as being anti-American
Review: Susan Katz-Keating has written one of the three best books on the Vietnam War MIA issue. Sadly, the issue has been -- and continues to be -- exploited by charlatans, frauds, wannabes, and some honest people who have been misled by the others. Ms. Keating puts the claims of the MIA enthusiasts to the test of logic and reality and their case loses at every turn. Tragically, the real losers in this whole affair are the families of the missing men, many of whom are still having old wounds ripped open by shameless self-promoters. The other two books that I recommend are: "M.I.A.: Mythmaking in America," by H. Bruce Franklin, and, "M. I. A.: Accounting for the Missing in Indochina," by Paul Mather. The Franklin and Mather books are also available from Amazon.com.
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Summary: Exposes the Samply and Limbaugh as being anti-American
Review: This book shows how Ted Sampley abused the hopes of grieving families for profit. Their best-known victim, until now, was Sen. John McCain. He first drew Sampley's poisonous attention when, along with John Kerry, he debunked the idea that Americans were still being held by Vietnam, and endorsed the restoration of diplomatic relations with the Communist government. Keating describes in detail how, in 1992, Sampley commenced a "scurrilous" crusade to punish McCain:
"Sampley ... accused McCain of being a weak-minded coward who had escaped death by collaborating with the enemy. Sampley claimed that McCain had first been compromised by the Vietnamese, then recruited by the Soviets.
"To those who know McCain and are familiar with his behavior in captivity, the charge is ludicrous. McCain resisted his captors to such a degree that he was isolated in a special prison for troublemakers. He repeatedly refused special favors, including early release, and emerged as a spiritual and religious leader for other prisoners. Nonetheless, Sampley was persistent enough in his claims that the press in McCain's home state of Arizona picked up on the KGB story."
This book is an excellent reply to the venomous right such as Rush Limbaugh (who by the way avoided military service) who try to portray honorable Veterans like John McCain and John Kerry as less than honorable vets. McCain and Kerry served with honor. Limbaugh dodged the draft.
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