Certainly. if there is any falling short of that. I believe the six of us who shared this experience together in Southeast Asia for a very full and hectic week will continue to make the point to the Department of Defense and elsewhere in the Government what they need to be doing to keep faith with the American people and most particularly with the families of our lost servicemen who have been put through an extraordinarily difficult and emotional roller coaster ride year after year with the numerous reports. almost always shown to have been fraudulent. of live POW sightings and all the rest. In fact. one of the things that I think struck me the most about being on the ground in Southeast Asia was understanding the incentives that have unfortunately come to bear to give Southeast Asian refugees in Thailand and elsewhere reason to concoct stories about our missing servicemen. aided and abetted by the most cynical efforts of others in those countries willing to exploit both their gullibility and the vulnerability of our families here in the United States with phony dog tags. with contrived skeletal remains and all the rest. It is really a sad commentary that there are those over there who are willing to exploit this as cynically as they are. But we need to know about that because it gives us the context in which to judge some of these phony reports about live sightings and other evidence.
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Southeast Asian refugees are concocting stories about missing servicemen for financial gain.