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What would you think of a country that at the end of an armed conflict, knowingly leaves its soldiers behind in enemy territory? What would you think of a government that chooses not to negotiate with a foreign country for the return of its citizens, but instead abandons them to a fate that is likely to include torture, abuse and possibly death?
What would you think if you learned that the country and government that did these things is your own?!
In his brilliant award-winning documentary, Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America’s POWs, producer and director Bill Dumas brings together an irrefutable body of evidence to show not only that after the war, the United States government ordered the abandonment of American POWs in Korea, rather than negotiate with North Korea for their return, but that the same thing happened in Vietnam, and may also have occurred elsewhere.
Dumas has captured on film, testimony before Congress that clearly establishes the U.S. government’s actions with respect to the abandonment of American prisoners of war. You will be shocked when you realize not only what the government has done to these soldiers, but who is responsible for covering up the entire matter! Hopefully, you will be outraged enough to contact your congressman immediately and demand that the government take every possible action to obtain the return of these troops (yes, many of them are still alive and living in North Korea, Vietnam, Russia, etc.).
If so, then Bill Dumas’ production of Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America’s POWs will have accomplished something that the highest levels of government have been unable or unwilling to do: to finally bring our troops back home.