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- NATION, Page 37American NotesTHE NAVYCommending The Vincennes
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- The Defense Department has a strange way with awards. Until
- this week, the crew of the U.S.S. Pueblo, imprisoned after the
- ship was seized by North Korea in 1968, had not received the
- Pentagon's POW medal. Since the U.S. and North Korea were not at
- war at the time, former Commander Lloyd Bucher and his men were
- classified as mere "detainees." It took an act of Congress to
- change the Pentagon's mind. Contrast that with the medals
- awarded to Captain Will Rogers III and Lieut. Commander Scott
- Lustig of the S.S. Vincennes last year. They were cited for
- their conduct during a skirmish in the Persian Gulf on July 3,
- 1988. The citations did not mention that an Iranian airliner was
- mistakenly shot down just after the incident, killing 290
- civilians.
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