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When were the American soldiers held prisoner for years after the Vietnam war released from a Vietnamese village and what happened to them?
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I can't give citations, but by and large, all POWs were repatriated after the American withdrawal. Vietnam had too much on its plate to keep up care and maintenance of American prisoners afterwards. All of the rumors of left behind prisoners were found to be just that, however it was popular during the Eighties that there were guys listed as MIAs sighted after the war and kept by the devilish Vietnamese communists. And if anyone refuted the claims, it was popular to brand them as somehow Unamerican. Eventually, it blew over. Now, the thing is to try to find the MIAs with Vietnamese help and bring the remains home, with honors. And that, too, is fading as the parties involved are aging and dying...
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