The fate of a missing American fighter pilot whose F 16 was shot down by Iranians on Friday reminded me of a story in Newsweek magazine in the 1980s. It was about American MIAs [soldiers Missing In Action] during the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.
One American mother told Newsweek that when she complained on telly that nothing had been heard about her MIA son, a US Airforce bomber pilot, ten years after the war ended, one man called her from New York. He said, “If your son did not mind bombing children in North Vietnam, then he got what he deserved. And you, as his mother, if you brought him up that way, then you are also getting what you deserve.”
