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write, the movies they see, the art they create. As the Eastern
world looks to the United States, they may see concern reflected
in Administration policy and statements; but they do not see it
reflected in the cultural life of this nation. It is easy for that
reason for them to think that Americans do not really care about
their men in Hanoi. After all, it would be easy for Hanoi to
think Americans do not care about their prisoners -- because Hanoi
treats its own men imprisoned in the South as non-persons. They
have lost hundreds of thousands of men in this war; yet, not even
acknowledged to their own people the presence of thousands of
their own men in prisoner-of-war camps in the South. So, you
see, it would be easy for Hanoi to think we had written off our
men, as they have written off theirs.
But that is not the way with the United States or American
people. Our men in Hanoi are not non-persons. They are our sons
in-
and brothers; and they have been treated/humanely for years, and we
care deeply about bringing them home, and so we acted. Yes, there
were tremendous risks.
A brave band of American soldiers and airmen, all volunteers,
penetrated to the very heart of enemy country, in vulnerable slow-
flying aircraft and helicopters. They might never have reached the
prison camp; they might have been detected en route; they might
have walked right into a trap from which none of them came back.
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