Correspondence between Senator Bob Dole and Father of an MIA servicemember

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File Name (Dublin Core): s-leg_629_015_002_redacted
Title (Dublin Core): Correspondence between Senator Bob Dole and Father of an MIA servicemember
Description (Dublin Core): Correspondence between Senator Bob Dole and Father of an MIA (missing in action) servicemember
Date (Dublin Core): 1970-05
Date Created (Dublin Core): 1970-05
Congress (Dublin Core): 91st (1969-1971)
Topics (Dublin Core): See all items with this value Prisoners of war--United States; See all items with this value Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Missing in action--United States; See all items with this value Families of prisoners of war
Policy Area (Curation): Armed Forces and National Security
Creator (Dublin Core): Dole, Robert J., 1923-2021
Record Type (Dublin Core): correspondence
Rights (Dublin Core): http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Collection Finding Aid (Dublin Core): https://dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=23&q=
Physical Location (Dublin Core): Collection 003, Box 629, Folder 15
Institution (Dublin Core): Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Archival Collection (Dublin Core): Robert J. Dole Senate Papers-Legislative Relations, 1969-1996
Full Text (Extract Text): May 7, 1970

(Redacted)
Leavenworth, Kansas 66048

Dear Mr. (Redacted):

I very much appreciated receiving your letter of April 27. The Tribute at Constitution Hall last Friday evening was most successful. In addition to the more than 1000 family members in attendance, the Hall was filled with Americans concerned about the care and treatment accorded to prisoners of war and men missing in action.

Enclosed is a program, which you might like to have, and in addition to the participants listed, Vice President Agnew made an appearance and spoke briefly.

You may be assured of my continuing efforts to see that our men do return home, and if I may ever be of assistance in any way, please let me know.

Sincerely yours,
BOB DOLE
United States Senate

BD: jh
Enclosure

(Redacted)
Leavenworth,
Kansas 66048
27 april 1970

Honorable Robert Dole
United States Senate,
Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator Dole:

As the father of a U.S. Air Force Phantom-jet (F-4-3) pilot missing in Laos since 5 Dec 1969 I must express my deep appreciation for your efforts on behalf of those fine young Americans who have so willingly risked their lives in the skies of North and South Vietnam and Laos.

My family and I pray that the POW-MIA Tribute Day which you and your Colleagues have organized for 1 May 1970 will be outstandingly successful and that it may serve to both awaken the American public to the plight of our servicemen, prisoners or missing, and to impress upon (crossed out) them

the Commisars of Hanoi the revulsion which decent people, everywhere, feel at the continued inhumane treatment of prisoners of war. We wish that circumstances were such as to permit us to be with you and your associates in Constitution Hall on 1 May.

Efforts such as yours may, we hope, focus the minds of the American public on the tremendous sacrifices that fine young Americans, who believe wholeheartedly in their country, are making daily in Southeast Asia and away from the defeatison abroad in America spawned by the whimpering of draft dodgers and deserters, the obscenity and violence of the dissenters and the plottings of leftist conspirators and provocateurs

Again our deepest thanks. We pray that your efforts and those of the many other humanitarians involved in efforts to aid our son and his comrades will someday bear fruit.

Sincerely yours,
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