Source:
Compiled by Homecoming II Project (919/527-8079) 01 April 1991 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
Copyright: 1991 Homecoming II Project.

SYNOPSIS:

Tom Clark graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1963, after having already spent two years at Penn State University. He was sometimes referred to as an "old man" at the Academy. He was interested in politics and flying and looked forward to a military career.

Nearly 6 years after his graduation, Tom Clark was flying a mission in Laos over the Ho Chi Minh Trail just northwest of the DMZ when his aircraft was shot down.

Circumstances surrounding his crash indicate that the enemy probably knows his fate, but in 1973, Tom was not released with other POWs.

Tom Clark is one of nearly 600 Americans who were lost in Laos and did not return. The Pathet Lao stated on several occasions that they held "tens of tens" of American prisoners, but that those who had been captured in Laos would also be released from Laos. The Lao wanted acknowledgement that the U.S. and Vietnamese had been waging war in their country.

Laos was not included in the peace agreements ending American involvement in Southeast Asia, and not one American held in Laos was released - or negotiated for. By 1989, the U.S. had so thoroughly forgotten the men they abandoned that they began building medical clinics for the communist Lao government. At the same time, reports and evidence mount that Americans are still held alive as captives in Vietnam and Laos.

Tom Clark served his country proudly. He does not deserve abandonment.

The Secrecy Act has been OVER FOR 20 YEARS. So Let's get our People HOME where THEY Belong. THEY Don't DESERVE To Be Left over There, Their FAMILIES Deserve PEACE OF MIND

Thomas E. Clark was promoted to the rank of Major during the period he was maintained Missing in Action.

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