Leave No Man Behind

Review Written By Bernie Weisz, Historian, Vietnam War Pembroke Pines, Florida USA Contact: [email protected] Title of Review: Vietnamese Communists Exposed; Inhumane Bone Storage Merchants Selling Answers Piecemeal for Political & Economic Concessions Bill Bell's "Leave No Man Behind" is both a memoir of his life as well as a vicarious, in depth view of what he experienced as the head of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs from 1991-1992 in Hanoi. Bell expresses the continued frustration he encountered in negotiating with ruthless, cash strapped Vietnamese Communist Party representatives (VCP), U.S. Congressmen as well as the grieving American families of missing or lost servicemen. The VCP's sole objective was a nefarious exploitation of Bell's humanitarian missions for economic and diplomatic concessions. By dangling stored U.S. remains and piecemeal answers as to how our men disappeared the VCP blackmailed the U.S. for revenue while the grieving families of the missing suffered, wanting no more than answers and closure. However, this book is much more than any oral history, biography or other memoir you will ever encounter. Revealed is the entire Vietnam War and as a consequence America's concomitant endeavors to recover its missing or lost. Drawing upon previously unreleased details and rare anecdotes, you will find this book priceless considering the wealth of information Bill Bell serves up! Bereavement goes beyond the MIA/POW quandary. It is up close and personal, as Bell reveals the pain endured by losing his father to a train mishap early in life and his first wife and son in a plane crash during "Operation Babylift," a mass evacuation of orphaned children from South Vietnam to the U.S. and other countries only weeks before Saigon fell to North Vietnam's legions. The Provisional Revolutionary Government (also known as the Viet Cong) also lost their freedom, tossed in the "Reeducation Camps" right alongside former South Vietnamese military and government personnel, all seen as VCP enemies. Regardless of external events, Bell's empathy never wavered in terms of his vicarious identification of bereavement and helplessness for the families of the 2,500 military personnel whom disappeared in South East Asia during the war, never to be heard from again. From being a young, idealistic infantryman in South Vietnam circa 1965 to his ultimate disillusionment and frustrating retirement after serving as America's first "field investigator" in S.E. Asia is an

שנה

2004

שפה

English

הוצאה

Goblin Fern Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

490

ISBN

9780964766341

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