Outside the system of the National Archives, there are other depositories of letters from POW/MIA families. One shortcut to collect such correspondence is the Laurence Jolidon papers in the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. It contains the copies of the primary sources (including over a hundred letters) he used to write Last Seen Alive (1995). Other possibilities include the personal papers of Defense Secretaries and State Secretaries. According to my talk with NARA archivists, only a small amount of POW/MIA inquiries may be directed to the personal collections of these officials. My plan is to use their online name index to confirm whether they contain correspondence of my interest. I predict that in
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Thus, they must be studied separately. Unlike the National League of POW/MIA Families (NLF) that have been closely worked with the federal government, most of the Korean War POW/MIA organizations are small, local, and without much political power. Consequently, it is very difficult to find their communication with the military and the federal government in archives. Neither is their voice cited in official documents. To address this issue, I would like to depend on the periodics of such organizations. I will work on three organizations. The first is the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America’s Missing Servicemen. This group aims to deal with MIAs not just in the Vietnam War, but every conflict since the WWII. Its members presented in several congressional hearings on POW/MIA affairs and had some interest in the forensic technology. Some of its earlier documents and newsletters are downloadable from the Virtue Vietnam Center and Archives maintained by the Texas Tech University. The other two are the Korean War Veterans Association and the Coalition of Families of Korean and Cold War POW/MIAs. They publish quarterlies (available online) dated back to 1986 and 2007 respectively. They generally advocate the public memory of the Korean War and update the public with MIA identification and technology. During my dissertation years, I will try to contact them …show more content…
The pool of my interviewees is the same as I mentioned in the section of military polices and forensic technology. I plan to ask my interviewees how they had pushed the military and federal agencies to locate their loved ones when they received the news that their relatives’ remains were lost in North Korea. I also need to know when they ceased to believe their missing relatives were still alive. Moreover, I may inquire their opinions about the perspectives of the remains repatriation in the context of the U.S.-DPRK relations. Finally, I might ask whether their reception of their loved ones’ bodies led to local attention to the Korean
Thus, they must be studied separately. Unlike the National League of POW/MIA Families (NLF) that have been closely worked with the federal government, most of the Korean War POW/MIA organizations are small, local, and without much political power. Consequently, it is very difficult to find their communication with the military and the federal government in archives. Neither is their voice cited in official documents. To address this issue, I would like to depend on the periodics of such organizations. I will work on three organizations. The first is the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America’s Missing Servicemen. This group aims to deal with MIAs not just in the Vietnam War, but every conflict since the WWII. Its members presented in several congressional hearings on POW/MIA affairs and had some interest in the forensic technology. Some of its earlier documents and newsletters are downloadable from the Virtue Vietnam Center and Archives maintained by the Texas Tech University. The other two are the Korean War Veterans Association and the Coalition of Families of Korean and Cold War POW/MIAs. They publish quarterlies (available online) dated back to 1986 and 2007 respectively. They generally advocate the public memory of the Korean War and update the public with MIA identification and technology. During my dissertation years, I will try to contact them …show more content…
The pool of my interviewees is the same as I mentioned in the section of military polices and forensic technology. I plan to ask my interviewees how they had pushed the military and federal agencies to locate their loved ones when they received the news that their relatives’ remains were lost in North Korea. I also need to know when they ceased to believe their missing relatives were still alive. Moreover, I may inquire their opinions about the perspectives of the remains repatriation in the context of the U.S.-DPRK relations. Finally, I might ask whether their reception of their loved ones’ bodies led to local attention to the Korean