This is consistent with his compliance of denying that Unrepatriated American POWs were ever held back, exploited, or otherwise detained at any time in this Century, never mind the Vietnam War. Official policy has been to down play and eliminate the concept of POWs. Instead, the term MIA is being employed as a trade and marketing tool that benefits the economic policies of the U.S. and its new trading partners in the former and existing communist bloc.
National honor has nothing to do with the new goals.
It certainly was. As a retired one-star general who retired some two or three decades ago, Wold's military retirement paycheck, computed on the salaries of the 1960s, was not very high. His annual retirement salary will most likely be greatly in excess of anything he ever earned while on active duty. I don't have the figures to crunch all the numbers, but someone who has the time to pull them from the records should compute them. I would guess that Wold's new annual retirement income will be somewhere between 2-5 times as high as he earned in his last year of active Air Force duty.