Feb. 24, More On Gulf War POW/MIA... Unilateral Investigations... How Good Are They.... Rule of Thumb... Buy Them A Camera... Everything Old Is New Again... Or Is It Everyone Old Is New Again... Dumbest Piece of Legislation... National Alliance Twelfth Annual Forum... We Have A Hotel...
Feb. 10, Two More... China Invites U.S. To Vist Two World War II Crash Sites... Koh Tang Remains... Family Memember Looking For... More From The NIE... And The Critical Assessment... New POW Update... National Alliance Twelfth Annual Forum... We Have A Hotel...
Feb. 3, Two More South Korean POWs Escape The North... Gulag Study... American POWs In The Soviet Union.... "Inscribed In The Wall Of Krasnia Prest Prison(?) In Moscow, He Saw The Name Major Roberts or Robbins, With His American Address And The Inscription "I am Sick And Don't Expect To Live Through This..." 39 American POWs Under Soviet Control At The End Of World War II... What Happened To Them... Gulf War - What Happened To The Crew Of Spirit 03... Apportioned Remains... Possible Soviet MIAs In Southeast Asia... He's Alive But Can't Convince Officials... More Exhumations At The Punchbowl.... National Alliance Twelfth Annual Forum...
Jan 27th, National Alliance of Families Extends Its Deepest Sympathy To.... January 27, 1973... The Day The Lies Began... The Case of Bat Masterson... The Case of Hasenbeck, Mangino, Nidds and Winters... The Case of Michael Blassie... Lies... Lies... And More Lies... Speaking Of Lies... Iraq Says Speicher Did Not Eject... What Did The Government Know and When Did They Know It... Our Question... Ambassador To Vietnam Stays... National Alliance Twelfth Annual Forum...
Jan. 13, Flash - Navy Changes Status Of Gulf War Pilot From Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered To Missing In Action... How Important Is the Reclassification of Lt. Cmdr. Speicher To The POW/MIA Issue... Is He Alive... President Says Maybe... The Evidence...What The New Status Really Means... National Intelligence Extimate and Critical Assessment Declassified. NIE Misses Even On The Minor Points... Thanks To Senator Bob Smith And His Staff... We Are Not The Only One With A POW Problem.... Sweden Says Wallenberg May Be Alive... Did Sweden Disregard An Invite To Exchange Wallenberg... South Korea... England... Japan...
BITS 2000
Dec. 2, Another South Korean POW Escapes The North... Everyone Survives But The American's... They'd Like Us To Believe That... Have The Soviets Finally Come Clean On The Fate of Raoul Wallenberg... Swedes Don't Think So... Dear Santa... Family Members, We've Gotten A Break Take Advantage Of It... World War II Marine Raiders Identified... Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, And A Healthy and Happy New Year...
Truth, Joy and Peace To Us All In 2001
Dolores, Lynn And The Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Families.
Nov. 18, November 16, 1967, November 16, 2000, The Difference... Mr. President, Why Didn't You Ask About The Live POWs... Does The Monster Live.... Did They Get Someone Else To Do The Dirty Work... The Clock Is Still Ticking... Clinton Visits Excavation Site... Didn't Anyone Tell Clinton... Bring Him Home Alive Act - It's The Law... Thanks to Senator Campbell... U.S. Russian Joint Commission Meets... Remains Recovery in North Korea... Reminder To POW/MIA Family Memmbers... Happy Thanksgiving....
Nov. 4, Mr. President, What About the Live POWs... There Is Evidence... That Indicates The Possibility Of Survival... Information Collected By U.S. Intelligence Agencies... Raises Questions About The Possibility That A Small Numbre OF Unidentified U.S. POWs Who Did Not Return May Have Survived in Captivity... What About The Live POWs... Mr. President... Just Ask... It'$ All About Bu$ine$$... How To Handle That Sticky Photo Op... North Korea Has To Wait... Bring Him Alive Act Passes... Vietnam War MIAs Identified... Rumor... Laos Turns Over Possible Remains....
Oct. 21, National Alliance of Families Extends Deepest Sympathy To Families of U.S.S. Cole Crewmembers... Death Of 17 Sailors Does Not Compare... Sad Commentary... THANK YOU... Section 1045 - Dead... Oops Correction To Oct. 7th Bits... Isolated Personnel vs. POW... Isolated Personnel We Will Continue To Worry... Like A Kid, You Have To Worry When She's Quiet... Putin Creates POW Commission... North Korea Threatens U.S. War Remains... South Korea Comfirms Abductees to DPRK... We Have To Ask.... Remains of 15 To Be Repatriated... An Editorial Comment...
Oct. 7, Why Do We Need The CIA Lawsuit... Read On... CIA Says Marine "Not On List" Confirmed POW... Where Are The Documents... Only The CIA Knows... Why Do We Need The CIA Lawsuit... To Get To The Truth... Family Members Need To Contact Roger Hall Regarding CIA Lawsuit... Identity Of Hungarian POW Confirmed... Hungarians Going Back To Look For More POWs... While They Are Looking... Unilateral Investigations... Why????
Sept. 23, 2000 Is He A POW, Or Isn't He.... DPMO Flip-Flops On Status Of Roger Dumas... Korean War Unknowns... Not As Unknown As The Government Would Like Us To Believe... Clinton's Going To Vietnam... After The November Election... Seizing The Opportunity... Servicemem Accounted For... From The Guestbook...
Sept. 2, 2000 National Alliance of Families Mourns The Passing of... DPMO Chief Says "It Is Highly Improbable That There Is An American Being Held Against Their Will"... Says Live Sighting Investigations are Presidents "Number One Priority"... Who Is He Kidding... Negoiating Hint - You Shouldn't Ask For Something Then State Your Belief That What You Are Asking For Doesn't Exist... It's The Live POWs.... Nhommarath - Glaring Failure... Contingency Plans For Live Americans In Indochina... A Number Large Enough Isn't 18 Or Even 30... DIA Flip Flops On Evidence... Turn It, Twist It, Distort It, Lie About It... Of Nhommarath, Former National Security Adviser Richard Allen Says "We Missed The Best Chance We Ever Had To Find POWs Still Alive"... Hungarian POW Captured In World War II, Release From Soviet Psychiatric Hospital...What's In A Name, Everything...
July 29nd, 2000 Urgent... Your Right To Know Is In Danger...Help Needed... Write Those Letters And Make Those Calls...
July 22nd, 2000 Urgent... Family Members... Reporters... Researchers... FOIA Laws Under Attack.... DIA Seeks To Exempt Operational Files From FOIA Laws... What Could DIA Be Hiding... Bring Them Home Alive Act... North Korea Holds 343 South Korean POWs From Korean War... Remains Repatriated From North Korea... Administration Honcho Tries To Intimidate Miss America... Veterans Organization Tells It Like It Is... Pentagon Not Happy...
July 8th, 2000 National Alliance of Families Mourns the Passing of... Congratulations To The Ladies And Gentlemen Run For The Wall... Action Needed... Korean War POW Says Men Left Behind... Senate Orders DOD To Do Their Job... There's Government Dead and Then There is Really Dead... Heads Up Marine Corp.... Congress Holds Hearing on Extension of Jackson Vanick Waiver... Alliance Statement... ROK And U.S. Agree To Recover Remains... Hanoi Jane Says... Servicemen Accounted For... Pentagon Says Fewer U.S. Troops Died In Korean War... Spy Damage... The Forum... Thanks To All....
June 3rd, 2000 Congratulations To The Ladies And Gentlemen Of Rolling Thunder... We Were Wrong...The Future Is Now... "Isolated Personnel"... "Operatons Other Than War"... DPMO Needs To Be Stopped... Time To Let The Emperor Know He's Not Wearing Any Clothes... Our POW/MIAs And All Active Duty Military Personnel Need Your Help NOW... Heads Up Marine Corp.... New Legislative Contact... Congratulations Dino... They Expect Us To Believe... See You At the Forum
May 20th, 2000 "The Bring Them Home Alive Act" Heads For A Vote... Notably Absent... H.Con.Res 311 Needs Cosponsors... Normal Trade Relations With China... What About Our POW/MIAs... Remains Identified... S.S. Mayaguez... No Final Rest For The Crew of Spooky 10... Why Does Johnnie Webb Still Have His Job... U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Refers To Congress As A "Minority Group...." Flash - Dixon Causes Cancer.. National Alliance of Families Eleventh Annual Forum
May 6th, 2000 DPMO Meets With POW/MIA Family And Veterans Groups... Strategic Plan Dead????.... Is That DPMO Dead Or Really Dead???... The MAA.... Bright Spot... Thanks To Congressman Jim Saxon... H. Con. Res 311 Needs Co Sponors... Gulf War POW/MIA Michael Scott Speicher - The U.S. Government NEVER Looked For Him... The War Records A Senator Doesn't Want You To See... Servicemen Accounted For... Vietnam Silences Dissidents... Vietnam Wartime PM Pham Van Dong Dead... National Alliance of Families Eleventh Annual Forum
April 22th, 2000 National Alliance of Families Mourns The Passing of... DPMO Rewrites POW/MIA History... Dismisses Capture Information On Vietnam POW Case... Convoluted Logic... Sister of POW/MIA Paul Hasenbeck States: "I Simply Cannot Comprehend How The Rule of "Credibility" Is Applied. Without Confirmation, It Sometimes is Creditable And It Sometimes Is Hearsay. Just How Does That Work?" Wife of POW/MIA Thomas Mangino States: "I'm Tired Of Being Lied To..." National Alliance of Families Eleventh Annual Forum
April 8th, 2000 Boy, Did We Hit A Nerve... DPMO Says We're Spreading Misinformation... They can't explain this statement away "Transition the accounting process for prior conflicts from active operations to reactive efforts triggered by new information by FY 2004."... Please Continue To Write Your Letters... We're Not The Only Once Concerned...Don't let your Senators and Congressional representatives be mislead by DPMO....While we are on the subject of DPMO Misinformation... Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Affairs, Robert Jones dismissed all evidence of the capture of Korean War POW, Roger Dumas.... Says Jones "...neither my agency nor any other Government agency has uncovered evidence, other than that which was solicited by Corporal Dumas' family, to indicate he was ever captured and held prisoner by communist forces during the Korean War."... The Clock Is Ticking.... Read "Pentagon Ditches Prisoner-of-War Evidence: POW/MIA Head Denies Corporal Roger Dumas "Ever Captured" in Korea New DPMO Ruling Sets Aside Even the Armys Own Analysts in Landmark Korean War Case."
March 25th, 2000 Get Well Wishes To... We Hit A Nerve... DPMO's "Vision" Of The Future... Keep The Pressure On.... Secretary of Defense Cohen Visits Recovery Site... Family of Cmdr. Rich Offered Their Opinion Of Vietnamese "Full Cooperation..." Long Range Planning... Cam Ranh Bay... There Has Always Been An Agenda... Servicemen Accounted For... The Kissinger List of 82... What Do The Vietnamese Know About POW John Graf...So, We Asked Again And We Asked Again And Again And Again And Again.... What's In The Debrief... National Alliance of Families Eleventh Annual Forum...
March 11th, 2000 A Good Day... 2004 Isn't In The Cards For Bill... 9th South Korean POW Returns From North Korea... Russian Memoirs.... American Servicemen From World War II, Korea and Cold War Taken to Former Soviet Union... Three Names Mentioned Are... There Are More Pleasant Ways Of Spending an Afternoon Than Negotiating with the North Vietnamese... Those Who Do Not Learn From Their Mistakes Are Doomed To Repeat Them... Trade Deal Kaput???.... Secretary of Defense Cohen Visits Vietnam In Time To Celebrate Their "Victory...." National Alliance of Families Eleventh Annual Forum
February 26, 2000 46 Months Till 2004... How You Can Help.... You Are The Last Voice For Our POW/MIAs.... Inadvertently Left Behind.... What One Family Has To Say... Clinton Certifies Vietnamese Full Cooperation, Again.... No Remains But They Are Talking... National Alliance of Families Eleventh Annual Forum
February 12, 2000 Get Well Wishes... A Look To The Future... OOTW 3 IP's... A Look To The Past... Freedom Birds Land At Clark... Rapid Post Hostility Accounting... Update On North Korea Remains... SJ 39 Thanks To Senator Campbell...Big Busine$$ $uffers In Vietnam... National Alliance of Families Eleventh Annual Forum
January 29th, 2000 BOHICA - The Department of Defense And DPMO Are Planning To Do It To POW/MIA Families, Again..... "By the end of the year 2004, we will have moved from the way the US government conducts the business of recovery and accounting to an active program of loss prevention, immediate rescues, and rapid post-hostility accounting...." He Was Alive, Folks! When The Freedom Birds Were Leaving Hanoi, John McDonnell Was Still In The Jungles Of Vietnam And, He Wasn't Alone..... Time Is Running Out - What are we going to do.... If you WANT TO HELP.... last ditch effort to insure ongoing investigations, we all better get used to the idea that the governments' active participation in POW/MIA investigation will end in 2004, and perhaps sooner..... Clarification.... The remains of 552 servicemen, recovered, identified and returned to their families.... Not by our count.... The following servicemen were NOT recovered, NOT identified and NOT returned to their families for burial.... There Ought To Be A Law.... How good was U.S. Intelligence on POWs.... National Alliance of Families Eleventh Annual Forum
January 15th, 2000 The National Alliance of Families Mourns the Passing of .... Declassification Hit Roadblock... Korea Talks Collapes... Taking Their Cue... South Korea Ignores Live POWs... Servicemem Identified... Creative Accounting 1 + 0 = 8...
Bits N Pieces 1999
November 20th, 1999 The National Alliance of Families Mourns the Passing of .... Servicemen Accounted For.... "In War The First Casualty Is Truth..." The Liars Win...
November 6th, 1999 Hearing On Cuban Participation In The Torture Of American POWs In Vietnam.... Destatte Says -- English Language Program "Gone Awry"... Former POW Mike Benge Says -- "I Have Taught English To The Vietnamese And Have Been Tortured By The Vietnamese And I Can Tell The Difference Between The Two".... Damage Control.... North Korea Repatriates Remains... Johnnie Webb Says.... We Say - Why Does Johnnie Webb Still Have A Job... Date For Our Forum 2000....
October 23rd, 1999 Hearing Scheduled.... Ex-POW Says He Was Torured By Cuban... Thanks to Congressman Gilman and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen... Special Thanks to Former POW Mike Benge... Sad Commentary - "1/3 In U.S. Say It's Ok To Torture POWs... Punchbowl Exhumations... What You May Not Know... Masterson Update.... Let's Get This Straight... Oops, Correlation Error... If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Vietnam... Show Your Support... C-Span Tapes Available... Date For Our Forum 2000....
October 9th, 1999 National Alliance of Families Mourns the Passing of John Van Wees.... North Korea To Return Remains... What About The Live POWs... Too Many Live Sightings... To Dismiss That There Are No POWs IN North Korea... POW Transfers to the Soviet Union.... DPMO Says No.... JCSD And The Intelligence Community Say "The Books Remain Open..." China To Cooperate... Start With Dumas And Desautels... Where Is Dallas Pridemore... Pridemore and Mc Donnell, What Do They Have In Common... The Men Of "Project X"... We Have To Ask... POW/MIA.... Date For Our Forum 2000....
September 25th, 1999 National Alliance of Families Mourns the Passing of Adrian Fisch.... DOD And DPMO Shift The Focus... Flash!!! It's The Live POWs.... It's POW/MIA.... Thanks to AMVETS For Rememberbing.... Tomb Of The Unknown Dedicated... Not Invited... No Unknowns... Memo - Then & Now... Where Are They Now... Exhumations Begin At The Punchbowl... Why Stop At 100.... What About Louis Mutta...
HOT NEWS!
September 11th, 1999 "Referenced report provided information of urgent political sensitivity," so reads a Defense Intelligence Agency message sent to USDAO Saigon Vietnam on June 15, 1973. Only evidence of American POWs left behind in Vietnam would warrant a message of "Urgent Political Sensitivity." That was the situation facing DIA in June of 1973.
The next time someone asks you to name one American Serviceman
left behind in Southeast Asia, name just one....
Look them straight in the eye and say
Captain John T. McDonnell United States Army
Last Known Duty Station --- Vietnamese Prison Camp
Location -- Ba To, Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam
Last Seen Mid To Late February 1973
And He Was Not Alone!
If you want the facts, if you want to view the evidence, click here
September 4th, 1999 Jane Duke Gaylor Passes... The Navy Called Leonard Gene Smith A Deserte... The New York Police Department Called Him John Doe And Buried Him In New York's Potters Field... Let's Right This Injustice... Thanks To Ted Sampley For Bringing This Story to Public Attention... They're Awful Free With The "D" Word... What Dulles Had To Say... "You May Desire Inform Soviets Without Revealing Source That We Have Reliable Accounts Transfers POW's Manchouli...." What The State Department Said In 1955... Who Gets Full Cooperation...Albright to Visit Hanoi... Is Bill Clinton Next... Servicemen Accounted For... Lie And Deny.... Don't Miss The Next Bits 'N' Pieces Sept. 11th....
July 24th, 1999 Two Servicemen Lost In Kosovo... Can't Believe We Did That, Sorry Mike... C-Span Tape Available... Our Meeting - Who Wasn't There... Serviceman Identified... Jackson - Vanick... Human Rights, Freedom of Religion and Freedom of the Press - Vietnamese Style... The Me$$age... The Vote... Lie And Deny - They Do It Again... Let's Get This Straight... Goin' Fishing - It's Vacation Time.
June 26th, 1999 Reward For Milosevic... Reward For Terrorists... No Reward For POWs... Congress Votes 415-5 to Direct State Department To Investigate Case of 3 Israeli MIA's... Alliance Provides Document Regarding Movement of PWs To North Vietnam To POW Family Who State's "I've Never Seen This Before...." The Meeting - A Roaring Success.... C-Span Was There.... We Pulled A Rabbit Out Of The Hat....
June 5th, 1999 Remember, We Have A New E-Mail Address... Congratulations To The Ladies And Gentlemen Of Rolling Thunder... More Documents... It's That Time Again.... Our 10th Annual POW/MIA Forum... Confirmed Speaker - Dr. Timothy Castle, Author Of "One Day Too Long".... Join Us In D.C.... Remember Our Meetings Are Open To the Public At No Charge.... Message of Thanks.... Servicemen Accounted For.... Finn to Bring Home Green Beret POW/MIA....
May 22nd, 1999 We Have A New E-Mail Address... Clinton Says Thanks... Too Little Too Late... 7th South Korean POW Escapes The North... North Korea Repatriates Remains.... What About The Live POWs In North Korea... DOD Establishes Policy for Disinterment of Unidentified Remains.... mt-DNA, When Will They Get It Right... mt-DNA And Burnt Remains, Can They Or Can't They.... Alliance Tenth Annual Forum....
May 7th, 1999Home And Free, Our Yugoslav POWsRamirez, Stone, And Gonzalez Are Back On U.S. Soil... To The Rev. Jesse Jackson And His Delegation, We Say THANK YOU... Sad News... Casualties in the Balkans... Former POW Ted Guy And Mary Jolidon Pass... Live POWs - Pennsylvania State Hearings... Dolores Alfond Testifies... Mutta Update.... Thought For The Day.... More On Our Returned POWs... Alliance Tenth Annual Forum....
April 17th, 1999Ramirez, Stone, And Gonzalez - POW's Day 18... Don't Make Waves... Why Can't Clinton and Albright Use the "P" Word... Were Other Americans Seized by Serb Troops.... Survey Update - Ground Troops Yes or No.... Six Vietnam POW/MIA's Identified... One Family Disputes Findings... "One Day Too Long" - A Must Read... Bring Him Home Alive Act S-484 Needs Your Support... POW Bracelets Available.... Alliance Tenth Annual Forum....
April 11th, 1999 S/Sgt. Andrew Ramirez, S/Sgt. Christopher Stone, Spec. Steven Gonzalez - POW's Day 11... Were Our New POW's Setup..... Survey - Ground Troops Yes or No.... The Russians... Another South Korean POW Escapes The North... Dumas, Desautels & Glasser - They Finally Asked... Remains Identified... One Family's Questions.... Bring Him Home Alive Act S-484 Needs Your Support... POW Bracelets Available.... Alliance Tenth Annual Forum....
April 3rd, 1999 S/Sgt. Andrew Ramirez, S/Sgt. Christopher Stone, Spec. Steven Gonzalez - POW's in Yugoslavia... We Support Our Troops In "Operation Allied Force"..... POW Bracelets Available.... "Illegal Detainees" vs. POWs Come On DOD.... "Armed International Conflict"..... Timeline From The Office of Senator Bob Smith... Press Release From Lt. Col. Robin Higgins, wife of Col. William (Rich) Higgins U.N. Peacekeeper, Lebanon - Captured and Murdered by Terrorists.... Alliance Tenth Annual Forum....
March 20th, 1999 Senators Request Official Change Of Status For Gulf War POW/MIA Michael Speicher... "This Account Is The First Believable Story Of The Possibility Of Live American POW's In The LPRD That Has Been Heard Since 1975"... Coming Soon Debate On The Renewal Of The Jackson Vanick Waiver For Vietnam... Three Vietnam POW/MIAs Identified... Three World War II POW/MIAs Identified... mT-DNA Update.... Can The Government Identify X-656... Let's Help This Family Get Answers... Bring Louis Mutta Home... It's Amazing - Kieper - Keiper Sloppy, Sloppy, Sloppy... Alliance Tenth Annual Forum....
March 6th, 1999 Get Well Wishes to Jane Gaylor... We Did It... Next Battle "Free The JCSD..." Can The Government Identify X-656... Let's Help This Family Get Answers... How Can We Stop Government Officials From Telling This Lie... Decision Due on Tomb Of Vietnam Unknown... Co-Sponsors Needed For S-484 The "Bring Him Home Alive Act of 1999".... Contact Your Senator... Money Talks....
February 23rd, 1999 We Did It.... We Did... It... Thanks To Your Support... Norm Kass Reinstated...
February 20th, 1999 Alliance Mourns The Passing... Save The JCSD... Your Help Needed... DPMO Implies... DPMO Lies... What They Think Of Us... "Conspiracy Crowd..." "Conspiracy Artists..." Norman Kass Did Not, Repeat Did Not, Request A Transfer... Dance With The Devil... Does CIA Have Evidence Corroborating Volkogonov Papers... Who Do You Want Following The Lead... Why We Need The Hall Lawsuit... Order "One Day Too Long" Now... Photo of Airman Identified.... Sixth South Korean POW Escapes The North... Pro POW/MIA President In The White House... Videos... Our Annual Forum...
February 5th, 1999 Punishing Success... DPMO Attempts to Dismantle Joint Commission Support Directorate... Volkogonov Papers - The Final Nail In The JCSD Coffin... DPMO Ignores Senator Smith and Congressman Johnson... He Said, He Said... Waiting For Us to Disappear... POW Investigations As We Know Them To End In 2004... This Is Our Line In The Sand... The Decision To Save The JCSD Is Yours.... See How You Can Help..... It Is Now Up To You...
January 23rd, 1999 Better Access To Vietnamese Film Archives... We Hope So... Speaking of Photos... Can We Identify These POWs... Are The Russians Trying.... The Russian List Of 41 Revisited... Estonians And Ukrainians.... Don't Forget - Order Your Copy of "One Day Too Long"... New Search In Laos... Alliance 10th Annual Forum This June...
January 9th, 1999 National Alliance Mourns The Passing Of Mary Hall... Project Heavy Green - Lima Site 85 - New Book "One Day Too Long" A Must Read... Clinton Talks The Talk... Will He Walk The Walk... Servicemen Accounted For... Questionable Identification or Good ID.... DNA IS Not Conclusive Proof... Thanks To All Our Supporters... There Will Be A National Alliance Of Families Forum....
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