I cannot speak for other POWs, but I feel that you and every other American deserve to know exactly how we really performed in Vietnam, and not how we say we performed. Many of us returned POWs are asking you to support us in business and politics. You need to know who we are. I have no shame in my actions as a POW and believe our records should be an open book for historians and future generations to learn from. But hiding these things should raise questions in our fellow American's minds about all of us who were in the prisons of Southeast Asia.
True honor allows no finger pointing at the rear rank.
It is all about personal responsibility and setting an example for the rear rank. Do not give credence to the waffling, in print, of those who would not eat the food offered and cried of aching feet on the march. So do not listen to those who claim their job in the Army negated their responsibility to lead or rendered them a non-combatant. We had no Chaplains in the POW camps of Vietnam. With rank on your collar and a pistol on your side or a rifle in your hand, you are expected to lead and fight when required.