bite me, puta.
POWs and their FAMILIES speak out.
Jeanie Hasenbeck, sister of POW/MIA Paul Hasenbeck ,
Comments on John Kerry
I will never be able to forgive Kerry for being more interested in the return of John McCain's helmet than he was of obtaining truthful information on my brother, Paul Hasenbeck, and the three men missing with him. When Kerry, as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs visited Hanoi in November 1992, he met with Col. Pham Duc Dai, head of the War Museum in Hanoi. Col. Dai offered to solve the "mystery" of four men, from the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, who went missing on April 21, 1967.
That is my brother's case.
Dai presented his wartime diary detailing the ambush, death and burials of the four men. Kerry accepted this diary as the final accounting of my brother and the men with him. On December 1, 1992, during an open hearing of the Senate Select Committee Kerry stated: "We were told by certain Vietnamese parties, of personal knowledge, of what happened to certain servicemen. In one case in particular were the Vietnamese Col. in charge of the Museum told us of the death of four American servicemen who we still list as missing. The last account especially was not easy to listen to. It was certainly not what we wanted to hear but it was evidence of the fate of missing Americans."
It's never easy to listen to a lie and that's what Col. Dai's diary was. It was not the first hand eyewitness account as Kerry portrayed. Upon investigation it has been determined that Col. Dai did not arrive in the loss area until several days AFTER the ambush.
If there ever was a first hand demonstration by Kerry of how the POW/MIA issue means absolutely nothing to him, this was shown loud and clear by his refusal to corrected the public misconception that he got accountability on my brother and the men with him.
As an American citizen, he can have his own personal opinion of the war; as an American Senator, he had a responsibility to follow up on Col. Dai's diary and condemn the Vietnamese for offering false information in order to remove four men from the Last Known Alive list. Instead, he chose to bury my brother on a Vietnamese lie and call it full Vietnamese cooperation.
But he did get John McCain's helmet.
Jeanie Hasenbeck
Sister to POW/MIA Paul A. Hasenbeck
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