After three tours of duty "Incountry", and after hearing, seeing, and reading the old "Stars and Stripes" news paper, i really beleive there are a large number still alive and still there. Probably married, and living a good life.
2006-09-05 16:13:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Oh! Ed that's a bad loaded Q. I have to say if you did 3 tours in Nam you have a problem from the get-go. Never met a Viet Vet that served like you say you did that didn't have lots of problems.....PTSD is #1.
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Men had to volunteer to do what you say you did and most times the Gov. wouldn't let you unless you were a REFM. Not much stress.
Bless your heart if you did 3 tours! I do know some guys who did serve "in-country" for 3 tours and they are crazy. Yeah, I think there are some fellows still living in Nam....Let it go! There's always been men who stayed behind after a war.
God Bless Our Troops
2006-09-05 17:19:55 · answer #1 · answered by SNOOP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe?
I saw TV show a few months ago about deserters from the Korean war! The US had at least a dozen POW's how wanted to stay in China. Many did,they got jobs, did propaganda during 'Nam and even married locals.
I know of at least one CIA star on the wall that belonged to a ex Agent who was captured trying to save folks in Saigon in the 1975. He was tortured and killed. There are also known cases of US & UN POWS held in North Korea & China after the Korean war.
The Russians kept some German Pows like fighter ace Erich Hartman in gulags as late as 1955. 10 years after WW2......
2006-09-05 23:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many think that there are still POWs in Vietnam. There was still a few in Russia after the Korean War in the late 1980s that came to light when the U.S.S.R. folded. There was reports that a few who went awol in Vietnam went into the North Vietnam and are living there today.
2006-09-06 01:48:02 · answer #3 · answered by fatboysdaddy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I imagine there are a few deserters who living a quiet life there. I doubt there are any Americans who are being held against their will, the Vietnamese people have really moved on and put that conflict behind them.
2006-09-06 03:57:53 · answer #4 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was in vietnam and seen one he was a deserter living in a small district in the north and was homeless he was being free he said
2006-09-06 00:06:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋