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Twenty two years ago this month the first American airman was shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. Twenty years ago my husband, a Marine aviator, was shot down over Laos. In the years that have followed, the American prisoners have been political pawns. During the Vietnam war they were used by the Nixon ...