Paul G. Brown

  Returnee    

LETTER

SOURCE: WE CAME HOME copyright 1977 Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor P.O.W. Publications, 10250 Moorpark St., Toluca Lake, CA 91602 Text is reproduced as found in the original publication (including date and spelling errors). UPDATE - 09/95 by the P.O.W. NETWORK, Skidmore, MO PAUL G. BROWN Captain - United States Marine Corps Reserve Shot Down: July 25, 1968 Released: March 14, 1973 Dear Friends, I deeply thank you for your love, concern, thoughts, and actions on behalf of the American servicemen involved in Vietnam, the bereaved sadness with 45,958 American families, and the plight of the POW's. I deeply thank you for your involvement whether you were fighting, writing letters to dignitaries or Embassies or to generate wide spread support, wearing symbolic bracelets, talking to others to raise their level of awareness, peacefully demonstrating your convictions at rallies or in the streets, or involved in the peace negotiations. All of you in your own way brought an end to the Vietnam war and the return of the prisoners. I hope that the dead, the maimed, the prisoners, the veterans, the prayer for peace, and the lessons learned from the Vietnam war will not be forgotten. The most profound effect of my imprisonment is the positive realization of the freedoms and liberties that our country affords to its citizens by the Constitution. I am proud to be an American. With sincerity, Paul G. Brown Capt. USMCR November 1996: Paul Brown retired from the United States Marine Corps as a Lt. Colonel. He and his wife Bobbi reside in California.