Larry Conrad of Indiana Book

This was first non-fiction historical book I read on the cover-up and the mere fact that our government did indeed leave our POW's and MIA's behind for the sacrifice of American Foreign Policy and operations that were highly questionable and were concealed from the American public for decades.

When evidence did surface that their were prisoners of war were still left in the jungles of Vietnam the government denied it and when a soldier came forward to say he was a prisoner of war and that there were countless others being held against their will the government disagreed and convicted him of basically what they called treason because they thought ex-marine Bobby Garwood was collaborating with the enemy and they convicted him on the grounds of treason.

The government buried his story of the fact there were prisoners left behind. As the author examines Garwood's case she comes across a world of secret information, missing files, censored testimony, and official obstruction and even threats from government officials.

I was shocked and enthralled by this unbelievable story of deception and outrage that our US government, the land of the free and democracy would abandon the men and women who fought for their country. They essentially ridiculed their validity of human value and were persecuted by their own government by using the cry of National Security to conceal their actions to whom they should be questioned as to why are intelligence bureaucrats running our country?

Reading this book forever changed how I viewed our country and how they put our soldiers at stake for their own means and keeping the perception we leave no one behind when in fact we do.