"The Mia Cover-Up"

[thedrifter]

EXCERPTS FROM &quot;THE MIA COVER-UP&quot; BY JOHN CORRY <br />
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February 1994 <br />
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A March 1973 memo to the Joint Chiefs of Staff says, &quot;There are approximately 350 U.S....

[Lock-n-Load]

:marine: Contact Irene Mandra-USMC...Imandra@optonline.net..she is President of MIA-POW Families and their fight vs the USA Dept of State and the USA Defense Dept for stonewalling all MIA-POW Families since 1952..."Nazi Germany" still rules the Beltway.:marine:

[MillRatUSMC]

http://www.oldglorytraditions.com/vietnamwar_s.htm
U.S. ACCOUNTED-FOR AND UNACCOUNTED FOR FROM THE VIETNAM WAR
(Sorted by Name)

There's no listing of MIA's just,
KIA/BNR--Killed in action, Body not recovered.
A POW is just a POW even if we don't know that he or she has been captured by our enemies.

Below is a Marine,STAEHLI, BRUCE WAYNE USMC
Presumptive finding of death instead of MIA or KIA/BNR.
My note;
I believe that L/Cpl Bruce W. Staehli has been reverted back to MIA or KIA/BNR.

STAEHLI, BRUCE WAYNE

Name: Bruce Wayne Staehli
Rank/Branch: Lance Corporal/USMC
Unit: l/3/9 3 MAR DIV
Date of Birth: 24 September 1948
Home City of Record: Crown Point Lake IN
Loss Date: 30 April 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 164930N 1070200E
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Others In Incident: none missing
Refno: 1152

Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.

SYNOPSIS: Bruce Staehli was a Marine in Vietnam when the fighting was intense. His Marine brothers at Khe Sanh had fought the Vietnamese in one of the bloodiest battles of the war earlier in the year, while the Marines at Hue were fighting the enemy in the streets. By April, the Marines at Khe Sanh had finished operation Pegasus and had embarked on a series of missions called Scotland II to search and clear the area of enemy presence.

It was perhaps on such a mission that Bruce Staehli disappeared on April 30, 1968, near the city of Dong Ha, South Vietnam. Dong Ha is only a few miles from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), and less than 30 miles northeast of Khe Sanh. Staehli is the only missing man from the action that day, and there is good reason to believe the enemy knows his fate. He may have been captured.

When American prisoners were released 5 years later, the Staehli family was shocked and disappointed that their son was not one of them. Experts say there were hundreds expected to be released who were not.

Since the end of American involvement in Vietnam, thousands of reports of Americans still held captive in Southeast Asia have been received by the U.S. Government. Official policy states that there is not enough proof to act, but that presumably, one or more American is held. Critics of that policy, including individuals in government, say the proof is there, but that no one is willing to pay the price of freedom for these captive Americans.

If one of them is Bruce Staehli, what must he be thinking of us?

My note;
This is one reason why, we should NEVER get rid of the POW/MIA Flag or as some called it that old "Black Flag"...

Praying that the Staehli family will have closuer to what happen to L/Cpl Bruce W. Staehli back in April of 1968...

My note;
Read once that there still some French in Vietnam that were captured by the Viet Minh during the first Indichina War.
I just got finishing viewing the "Panist" at the end of the movie, it state that the German officer that help the "panist" died as a POW of the Soviets in 1952, that was seven years after the end of the war with Germany.
Also the Soviets took some our POW's from Korea in the 1950's.
That fact was uncovered at the collapse of the KGB of the Soviet Union in the 1990's.
What happen to those POW's?
We need an accounting of their fate...

Semper Fidelis
Ricardo