Sir (officer or not, angry or not, you earned the title in Southeast Asia, but for God’s sake, man, listen to us):  We have been informed by U.S. Postal Inspectors that you read about America’s abandoned POWs in “Cold Case,” the cover story in the Jan/Feb 2009 edition of The VVA Veteran, and became very angry.  And why not; for the article chronicles how our prisoners were knowingly abandoned by U.S. officials at war’s end; how they were almost saved but then again abandoned in the early 1980’s; how their fate was covered up throughout the 1980’s, and how the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs finally doomed them to a lifetime of captivity in 1991-1993. It shows how U.S. officials purposely and with malice of forethought ridiculed, discredited, manipulated and/or explained away all intelligence about these men, and how in the end (1) every one of the nearly 1,000 credible witnesses were declared liars or confused about what they had seen (those who were confused, officials said, actually saw Russian troops, American POWs who were released in 1973, western tourists or, in one case, not ten American POWs in forced labor as the eyewitness who had seen them testified, but instead two Amerasian buffalo boys); (2) how every postwar radio intercept about our POWs was declared false, and (3) how not one of the numerous postwar satellite images that proved the POWs’ existence was believed.  Bottom line: as “Cold Case” made clear, our government says our POWs are not really POWs at all, but are – officially – figments of someone’s imagination, or Amerasian children like these: