BROWN, PAUL GORDON

Name: Paul Gordon Brown
Rank/Branch: United States Marine Corps/O2
Unit: 1 MAW
Date of Birth: 25 August 1943
Home City of Record: Newton MA
Date of Loss: 25 July 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 171400 North 1005100 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A6A
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1257

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS: 730314 RELEASED BY DRV

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).

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.

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