It can be boiled down to this: He was our bravest Vietnam prisoner of war.

Senator John McCain, himself a Vietnam prisoner of war for five years, concurs with this view and urges the Administration to normalize ties.

He also has three 60-second radio spots, two of which feature a fellow Vietnam prisoner of war, Col. Bud Day.

Mr. McCain is influential on detainee questions because of his years as a Vietnam prisoner of war.

The Vietnam prisoner of war experience was itself unique in our history.

She was press secretary for the congressman and then senator John McCain of Arizona, the outspoken former Vietnam prisoner of war.

About 1,000 people watched Saturday as James Bond Stockdale, a retired vice admiral and former Vietnam prisoner of war, accepted the Avenger into the fleet.

Perot had been intimately involved with Presidents Nixon and Reagan in his search for missing Vietnam prisoners of war.

The former Vietnam prisoner of war was reduced to trudging around New Hampshire carrying his own bags.

Visit to Vietnam Mr. Smith pushed for creation of the Senate Select Committee that investigated Vietnam prisoners of war last year.