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...Aachen in October 1944. He spent much of the following winter being force-marched across Germany before he was liberated in April 1945. A half-century later, Winsick still can't speak of his ordeal without crying, but at least it did earn him one benefit: as a former pow, he was entitled to lifelong free medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Or so he thought...
According to Richard Robinson, benefits-services director of the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association, Winsick's special status as an ex-POW obligates the VA to get him the treatment he needs by contracting with a private provider if necessary. "We run into this type of wrongful, dollar-driven disallowance all the time," says Robinson. "They're trying to cut corners. The name of the game is to try to save money and to hell with the veteran...
...Faulkner because she is not the perfect poster-cadet, or because misogyny is ebbing, or because the work of integrating all-male institutions is over. At the Air Force Academy, cadet Elizabeth Saum, a champion diver and straight-A student, was forced to take medical leave after playing the POW in a survival-training course. Saum says she was confined with a hood over her head and no food or sleep for two days, splattered with urine, and climbed on by a male cadet who forced her knees apart and simulated raping her. She sued the Air Force...
McCain has pressed for normalization even though some veterans' lobbies have vilified him as "the Manchurian Candidate." The former POW voices an argument that is not widely understood in the U.S.: Vietnam today is valuable as a strategic counterbalance to China. Hanoi has just joined as a fully paid-up member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a bloc of such countries as Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines that banded together in 1967 under the threat of Vietnam's conflagration and China-aided communist insurgencies. These neighbors, edgy of late about China's new military strength, see Vietnam...
Saying the time had come to "bind up our own wounds," President Clinton extended full diplomatic relations to Vietnam on the unanimous recommendation of his top advisers and with the backing of key legislators, including Republican Senator John McCain, a Vietnam War veteran and former POW. Normalization, said Clinton, would further U.S. diplomatic and economic interests and facilitate an accounting of Americans still missing in action. The American Legion, mia groups and many Republicans, among them Senate majority leader Bob Dole, protested...