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Were American POWs knowingly left behind in Vietnam?
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Did any of these prisoners get out of Vietnam alive?
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Do you need to hear this incredible story?
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Spite House
The Last Secret of the War in Vietnam
by Monika Jensen-Stevenson
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(The following information is from the book jacket of Spite House and the Amerikan Expose website.)
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Two U. S. Marines, both totally loyal to the same beliefs; one is turned into a hunter, and the other into prey. Such a distortion of patriotism would not be credible unless buttressed by the testimony of both men.
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In 1965, Marine private Robert Garwood, ten days short of the end of his tour, was sent on a mission from which he did not return. Ambushed by the Vietcong, he was held prisoner for fourteen years. In 1979 he escaped and returned to the United States, where he was hastily court-martialed and convicted of collaborating with the enemy.
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Now at last we learn Garwood's true story; a harrowing, profoundly moving, fourteen year struggle to survive and prevail, not only over a cruel and manipulative enemy, but over his own country's secret efforts to kill him. Part of Colonel Tom McKenney's job in Vietnam was organizing killer teams to eliminate such "traitors," and Garwood became an obsession to him. Only twenty-five years later did he come to the conclusion that Garwood was innocent, and more than that, a hero. Thanks to McKenney's courageous testimony, and to the author's fearless pursuit of facts, an injustice is at last set right and the workings of a dreadful secret machinery are laid bare.
(from the book jacket)
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November 11th, 1991
Crystal City Hilton
Washington, D.C.
Annual Meeting
Vietnam Veterans Coalition
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"I sat at the speakers' table and noticed him come through the door. He surveyed the large room with some distaste and just a touch of embarrassment. Several hundred men and women were milling around breakfast tables...."
"Greeting people after my speech, I again became aware of the visitor, a ramrod-straight, imposing figure in a dark suit, waiting patiently, an intense look on his face. He made no move to speak. Only when I began to move away did he step forward and take both my hands in his. He began to weep silently. The silence stretched on and on. Finally he said, 'I am Colonel Tom C. McKenney. You must know how to reach Bobby Garwood. I directed an official mission to assassinate him behind enemy lines, because I believed what they told me. Would you please tell him I will crawl on my hands and knees to beg his forgiveness?' "
--from Spite House
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Amerikan Expose Exclusive Interviews
with Monica Jensen-Stevenson, Tom McKenney, and Robert Garwood.
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Chris Gerner has conducted twelve interviews totaling fifteen hours on Amerikan Expose with Monika Jensen-Stevenson, the author of Spite House, and with Tom McKenney and Bobby Garwood, the subjects of the book. They have a remarkable and heartbreaking story to tell. It is so important that you help to get this information out to the American people. Purchase the books and tapes and share them with your family and friends.
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(Information regarding purchase of the above book and/or tapes is available at the Amerikan Expose website, click below)
Links
Amerikan Expose
Citizens for Honest Government
Articles By LtCol Tom McKenney USMC Ret.
Other Reviews#1
Other Reviews#2
Garwood Revisited
Zippo's Corner
Firebird 90
Why Didn't You Get Me Out?
Review (above book)
Marine Secret Execution!
By Lee O. Miller
New! Shocking! Controversial!
A Fellowship Of Valor: The Battle History of the USMC
By Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.)
POW/MIA Books
Soldiers Of The Sea: The USMC
By Col. Robert D. Heinl USMC
Books By Maj. Gene Duncan USMC Ret.
(See also, Sea Stories-MainPageLinks)
Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.
Korean Vignettes: Faces of War
By Arthur W. Wilson
Marine! The Life of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller USMC (Ret.)
By Burke Davis
Sir, Yes Sir
By Martin Iacampo Sr.
Brothers In Battle
By R. Bruce Watkins
Marine Corps Association Bookstore
Military/Marine Videos and Books
Into The Crucible: Making Marines For The 21st Century
By Captain James B. Woulfe USMC
Marine Pioneers: The Unsung Heroes of WWII
By LtCol Kerry Lane USMC Ret.
Wake Island: The Heroic Gallant Fight
By Duane Schultz, 1978
(From the book jacket)
"It is December 1941. The swiftness and devastation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is thought to be the most humiliating and overwhelming military defeat the United States has ever suffered....But one tiny, lonely island holds on. Four hundred forty-nine Marines, sixty-eight sailors, six soldiers, and a few hundred civilian construction workers fight on with four outdated fighter planes, discarded battle ship cannons, a few machine guns and rifles, and some World War I helmets.
....is the gripping story....of the men who worked the miracle in those dark days of December, 1941. In the end, Wake Island was lost, but not before stalling the lightning attack of the Japanese and winning valuable time for the faltering Allies. It was, in a sense, the Allies first victory, a brief but glorious glimpse of light, an indication of the bravery and determination that the Allies would demonstrate time and time again in the years ahead.
But most of all, the action at Wake enabled Americans and people around the world to stand a little taller in these grim days of December, to swell with pride at the cockiness and determination which those few displayed in the face of disaster."
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Considering the power accumulated for the invasion of Wake Island, and the meager forces of the defenders, it was one of the most humiliating defeats we had ever suffered.
Masatake Okumiya, Commander
Japanese Imperial Navy
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island By Gregory Urwin
The Defense of Wake By LtCol R.D. Heinl, Jr. USMC
THE BIG YANKEE
The Life of Carlson of the Raiders
By Michael Blankfort, Little, Brown and Company. Boston, 1947
This biography is the story of one of the most impressive figures to emerge from World War II. Evans F. Carlson is a living war hero who has won a place in the hearts of thousands of Americans through his courage, his humanity, and his grasp of the issues of war and peace. It is the story of Carlson the soldier and of Carlson the great American who has struggled against prejudice, complacency and ignorance to realize his vision of democracy in our military organizations and in the world at large.
Here is the picture of a magnetic military leader who built up the revolutionary Raider Battalion on the principles of "Gung-Ho" and led it into the first land encounter with Jap forces. But underneath the superefficient soldier and planner of battles is the American looking for a way to fulfill the promise of our tradition. Carlson was raised in New England; he ran away from home, entered the Army, was sent to Europe, learned about guerilla warfare in Nicaragua and Asia. His first visit to China opened his eyes to the struggle men were still making to achieve democracy. He lived and fought with the Eighth Route Army. He tried to tell the world what he had learned about military democracy and the threat of Japanese facism. Officialdom, however, was not ready for his messge and he had to resign from the Marine Corps to bring his warning to the American people. Time proved his predictions true, and after 1941 he rejoined the Marines and organized the famous Raider Battalion, which put in practice what he had learned in China and all that he believed about American democracy.
Michael Blankfort was in the Marine Corps himself and got to know Colonel (now Brigadier General) Carlson there. He has written this biography through this personal knowledge od Carlson and through conferences with his family and close friends and enthusiastic veterans who served with him.
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