The MIA/POW cartoon

This cartoon was a cheap shot. The inference that our Pentagon is staffed with uncaring blowhards, insensitive to POW/MIAs, is incredibly foolish.

There have been five presidents since the Vietnam fiasco, among which was the "human rights" president, Jimmy Carter. Surely Mr. Carter would have forced our military to find any US troops held in Indochina against their will after we gave up and pulled out. Charles W. Morris, Richland, Miss.

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