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HOMEPAGE OF KIBA'S FLAG Upon capture, all prisoners-of-war are told that for them the war is over; but, in reality, their war is just beginning, and it never really ends. In most cases, it is they who must stand alone and unarmed, face to face against the entire enemy nation and entire enemy armed forces against whom they were fighting. They no longer have the support nor the aid of the strongest and greatest military machine on earth.
We Americans boast that we never leave one of our own behind; therefore, most prisoners-of-war and those unfortunate souls who are missing-in-action just assume and have the utmost confidence that their beloved United States Government and their patriotic fellow American countrymen will do everything humanly possible to extricate them from their terrible predicament. The very thought of being "left behind" rarely enters their mind because they are sure that they have the moral support and prayers of their loved ones, friends, fellow countrymen, and government back home. Their faith in God and their trust in and love for their blessed country instill in them the will to resist their barbaric, cruel, godless, inhumane, and sadistic captors. Their steadfast faith and trust in the incomparable American way of life provide them the determination to continue to fight and to deny any aid or comfort to the vile enemies of the United States of America; but, even so, there are times when these unfortunate captive and fettered "defenders of our freedoms" must surely wonder if anyone knows that they are still alive and still struggling to survive against seemingly insurmountable odds, and they undoubtedly question whether or not anyone even cares!!!
After experiencing the horrors of internment in some filthy, malodorous foreign hellhole and then learning that thousands of your fellow American warriors, who were missing-in-action and were prisoners-of-war, were left behind and are unaccounted for, you tend to question if they (US Government officials) really and truly cared whether or not you were ever released. You become so disillusioned, frustrated, and angry that you determine to do whatever you can to inform the American public about this cowardly and dishonorable betrayal and calloused abandonment of your fellow and most unfortunate American countrymen by our incompetent, inept, insensitive, and gutless US Government officials, and you pray daily that your caring fellow patriotic American people will join you in your efforts to secure the release of these poor unfortunate forgotten souls from their endless existence of pain, agony, and misery so that they might soon return to their beloved America to enjoy the freedoms which they have for so long been denied!!!
PLEASE BROWSE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS DISHONORABLE ACT OF BETRAYAL!!! The sketch of the abandoned POW on this page was done by Mike McNosky, an outstanding art student in Mr. Clemons' class at Norton High School (Ohio). Mike drew the sketch in the late 1960's and also painted the same sketch along with other colorful POW/MIA slogans all over my 1969 Volkswagen Bug. For years I used the "Bug" with its colorful messages to attempt to inform the public about "our still missing" POWs and MIAs.
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