POW/MIA groups criticize U.S. efforts

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Source: The Washington Post

A coalition of groups representing veterans and the families of missing U.S. service members has accused the Defense Department of undercutting a joint U.S.-Russian program that seeks answers to the fate of Americans who disappeared behind the Iron Curtain.

The U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs, established in 1992, has given investigators from the United States access to Russia’s central military archives and opportunities to interview potential eyewitnesses about U.S. service members who may have perished in the former Soviet Union or the territory of its allies during World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War.

“After nine months of broken promises, we cannot sit quietly and allow senior officials in the Department of Defense to redirect funding, transfer researchers and linguists and jeopardize any possibility of mission success for the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs,” the coalition stated in an editorial released this month.

The issue was addressed Friday at the National League of POW/MIA Families national meeting in Crystal City, but Defense Department officials attending the conference did not satisfy concerns raised by the veterans groups, according to Ann Mills-Griffiths, executive director of the league.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/powmia-groups-criticize-us-efforts/2011/07/22/gIQAPFcDXI_story.html

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1. It's been almost 40 years since the Vietnam war ended.

There still are thousands missing from WW1 and WW2.
Is Germany or Japan still holding any Americans from then?

And over and over again "POW sightings" are proven to be cruel hoaxes by con artists.

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2. agreed