The Myth Of The Lost Pows Analysis

The background that you gave on the American public’s reason for distrusting the government allowed me to connect and understand the controversies that the POW/MIA issue brought in the post-war years. While, such cases as Watergate and other acts to cover up engagements that took place on the battlefield during the Vietnam years, the American pubic had the right to question and feel betrayed by their government. However, despite their doubts in the government, I would challenge the doubt that the POWs and MIAs had been accounted for and brought home. In your post, you used the quote by Robert Garwood, who claimed that there were still POWs in Southeast Asia to stir the emotions of the families that had known or had loved ones labeled as missing in Vietnam. I would raise the question of whether his statements were based on truth or to gain attention from the press because of his tension with the government. Was there any fact to back up what Garwood was saying? Personally, I think that Garwood may have been doing it just as a publicity stunt as many MIA/POW families “doubted” his claims (Rosenthal, The Myth of the Lost POWs).

Another topic that I would challenge is if the Veterans, regardless if they were POWs or just returning home from the war, were met with the appreciation from the public. …show more content…
Were the policies that the United States implemented effectively right after publishing them? Such policies as sending American cooperation’s to Vietnam in the post-war years Herring claims had success in reconciling the public and the two countries, but the success was “limited” (Herring, 373). Though this process had some success, an official trade agreement with Vietnam would not be signed until the