P.O.W.S: Some of the Bravest People

SOME of the bravest people I have ever met," President Nixon called the families of the captured and the missing. "When others called on us to settle on any terms, you had the courage to stand for the right kind of peace. Nothing means more to me at this moment than the fact that your long vigil is coming to an end."

In Azusa, Calif., Patty Hardy said quietly, "Saturday is my day of reckoning." The wife and daughters of Air Force Captain John Hardy waited, like the families of 1,925 other men held...

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