No. The POW/MIA flag is not racist, Rick Perlstein

No. The POW/MIA flag is not racist, Rick Perlstein
U.S. Flag and POW/MIA flag from article
U.S. Flag and POW/MIA flag from article

 

Richard Perlstein, National Correspondent for the Washington Spectator has written an article titled The Story of the Other Racist Flag.  This article might never have been seen except that it was reposted by Newsweek.  Mr. Perlstein, born in 1969 and a graduate of the University of Chicago, earned his liberal street cred writing such books as Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge.  From the article:

I told the story in the first chapter of my 2014 book, The Invisible Bridge, The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, how Richard Nixon invented the cult of the POW/MIA” in order to justify the carnage in Vietnam in a way that rendered the United States as its sole victim.

It began, as cultural historian H. Bruce Franklin has documented, with an opportunistic shift in terminology. Downed pilots whose bodies were not recovered—which, in the dense jungle of a place like Vietnam meant most pilots—had once been classified “Killed in Action/Body Unrecovered.

 

I have personally met and attended veteran services with quite a few Vietnam Veterans.  They do not see themselves or the United States of America as victims.  Victimhood is generally not a virtue among those who have served in the United States Military.  Captain Bill Robinson, United States Air Force, was the longest held enlisted Prisoner of War in the Vietnam War (he accepted a commission after his release).  This man is kind and gentle, but not a victim.

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