Foreword
Like millions of other Americans who in February, 1973, watched on television the dramatic homecoming of the POWs, I found myself absorbed in the event, and full of wonderment at the men. Suspicions of the harsh confinement notwithstanding, most who were returning after years of imprisonment seemed to be healthy, both physically and spiritually. Certainly, most still knew how to smile, and to speak with what seemed an almost old-fashioned enthusiasm for their America, a county long and tragically riven with dissension over the war.