HAL,
     In a message dated 02-03-98 you wrote ...
> 30 Jan 98 11:55, Jim Sanders wrote to Raymond Yates:
> At least these characters are curious, if extremely late.  It's a shame
> that it took so long for any of them to surface, but shouldn't the
> question be, "where were the curious ones thirty or forty years ago,
> when there will still enough survivors around to get some meaningful
> answers to those questions?"
   Most memories are shorter than my.. little finger...
 February 1998 copy of Air Force magazine has a heart bleeding
 story about the 335 POWs that came home from Vietnam 25 years
 ago... I admit they had a rough time.  I did not intend to be
 taken prisoner again if I went down on a mission over there....
   But we had several SINGLE missions where we lost more men that
 that. 137,000 USAF prisoners in Germany...   6,500 of all types
 in Korea.  Some still missing in Russia..
   My group lost 75 aircraft (750 men) in one year of operation.
 And we were a low loss group.   140 mem the day I went down.....
 That is about a 5 minute battle.
   My point is, if we intend to shed tears after all these years,
 please include all of the troops.  Not just a small group.. They
 deserve it...   but so do all the thousands of other who were
 behind barbwire and starved...
 'Nuff Said.
>
> Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
  Shoo doo
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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