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Someone sent us their work on this George Reece fellow, who was on an Honor Flight to the Vietnam Memorial last Veterans Day. The news folks took down the story before I could screen shot it, but I found enough of the article for you to get the gist of it;<\/p>\n

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – Army veteran George Reece was just 21 years old when he spent a year in captivity in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

He and three other soldiers were heading out to another camp when it all happened.<\/p>\n

“We went in, found it,\u201d Reece says. \u201cWe got captured, stayed POW for a year, we finally escaped. All of us escaped and got out.”<\/p>\n

Not wanting to recount those traumatizing moments, he says he lost 65 pounds during that year. <\/p>\n

Thankful to be alive, he says looking at the long list of names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial makes him so emotional, because he sees names of people he once knew so well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the first place we look is at DPAA;<\/p>\n

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No Reece was not a POW in Vietnam. So we ordered his records and he was indeed a Vietnam veteran. But, you’ll notice that he’s wearing a Special Forces cap – and a POW medal on it – in this picture. <\/p>\n

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He was an artilleryman in Headquarters and Service Battery of the 8th Battalion, 6th Artillery which was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Unless you think it’s Special Forces;<\/p>\n

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The links to the article were pulled soon after they published (I couldn’t even find it on the Wayback Machine), so I’m guessing that Reece and the journalists got called out soon after the story appeared – with good reason.<\/p>\n

ADDED: Here’s the video news report, thanks to AverageNCO;<\/p>\n