December 2001
Summary of news for the entire month.
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December 31, 2001 Mercy Bands Become POW-MIA Bracelet of 2001
"When I touch it, I instantly remember to pray," she said of the silver band on her arm. Shamburger, of Albuquerque, is one of 20,000 people across the country who wears a "mercy band" bearing the name of a victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Kuge, a Japanese college student, died aboard United Airlines Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
December 29, 2001 Russian Trip Report
Trip Report for TDY to Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk, Russia 9-26 September 2001
December 28, 2001 Kamchatka Trip Report
Trip Report for TDY to Kamchatka, Russia 30 June - 18 September 2001
December 27, 2001 SEA - US Ambassador to Vietnam Takes Up Post
The new U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, Raymond F. Burghardt, arrived in Hanoi on Saturday to begin a term that will focus on putting a new trade agreement into action.
December 26, 2001 Gulag Study Revised
The Gulag Study is a compilation of reports asserting that U.S. servicemen were held in Soviet camps and prisons. The study draws upon accounts from varied sources, many of whom claim to have been incarcerated in the Soviet Gulag system. The memoirs of a former Soviet Gulag inmate who lists several names that correlate to missing U.S. servicemen comprise a significant contribution to this study, which was originally prepared as a working document by the U.S. side of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs.
December 20, 2001 SEA - Warlords, POWs & Tribunals
Self-described ``guerrilla lobbyist'' Philip Smith has promoted the interests of Buddhists from Vietnam and rebel fighters from Laos. Now he's taken on another unusual client: Afghan warlord Rashid Dostum. Smith has made a career of representing rebel groups and outside agitators. As lobbyist for the Lao Veterans of America, who fought covertly for the CIA during the Vietnam War, he has fiercely opposed efforts to normalize trade relations with the communist Laotian government.
December 13, 2001 - NLF Update Line
Family Update
December 10, 2001 - NLF Update
Family News
December 08, 2001 - NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
Summary of News
December 06, 2001 SEA - Vietnamese President Signs Trade Pact
Vietnam's President Tran Duc Luong has signed into law the historic Vietnam-U.S. trade agreement, so giving effect to the pact, official media reported on Friday.
December 06, 2001 SEA - Remains Identification
The remains of an American serviceman missing in action from the Vietnam War have been identified and returned to his family in the United States. Identified is Navy Cmdr. John A. Feldhaus, of Lawrenceberg, Tenn.
POW-MIA Issue Update January 2002