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Walter B. Jones: “Red McDaniel, a returned Vietnam POW told Congress: ``We were prepared to be captured; we were prepared to die for our…”

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996
Red McDaniel, a returned Vietnam POW told Congress: ``We were prepared to be captured; we were prepared to die for our country. But we were never prepared to be abandoned!'' I thank Bob Dornan for his leadership, and for introducing the POW/ MIA Protection Act. I ask that my colleagues support this bill to show those still missing and otherwise unaccounted that we still care,--that we don't consider them ghosts, and that they have not been forgotten by an ungrateful nation!
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Walter B. Jones
North Carolina
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing support for the POW/MIA Protection Act and honoring missing servicemen.

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