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These left behind POW's were called "pearls" by thier captors. They seemed to be used for all kinds of things. Naturally labor, but I assume they were bought sold and traded amongst village chiefs out in the boonies. In the story so far the author has written of not only prisoners inside Vietnam, but also Laos Thailand, Cambodia, and so on where all the "dirty little secret wars" were going on, and of those secret wars being financed by the CIA through arms and drugs sales. Air America, remember that airline. Pilots have said they were told to fly here and there and never question what the cargo was. It seems there have been or more likely now it should be said "were" sightings of many live POW's for years after we left Vietnam in 1975. Garwood said he went by one group working in paddies somewhere that total 26 POW's. This book has been out for years and I just didn't want to get into it and now I know why. To say that there was just a few men left behind is ridiculous. Up to twenty years after the French left Vietnam they were secretly buying soldiers back for huge money. The Vietnamese governments has a bank of American bones it trades every so often to get something from us. The mortician who originally stack and stored these remanins now lives in this country.
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