FRANK ANTON WENT TO VIETNAM IN 1967 TO SERVE THE COUNTRY HE LOVED. NOW, MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS LATER, HE TELLS THE STORY OF HOW HIS OWN GOVERNMENT FAILED HIM....<P>For five hellish years, American soldier Frank Anton was held as a POW in Vietnam. Subjected to disease, starvation, and physical and psychological torture, Anton and his fellow prisoners held out hope that the U.S. government would find and rescue them.<P>When he was finally freed in 1973, Anton returned to the United States bruised and battered. And the most devastating blow of all had yet to even be struck. Upon his release, Anton was debriefed by the government and saw both aerial photographs of the prison camps where he was held and a close-up picture of himself walking the grueling Ho Chi Minh Trail. The government had known all along where and when Anton and his fellow soldiers were being held — and made no attempt to rescue them.<P>Now, in this harrowing first-person account and shocking expose, Frank Anton recounts his years as a POW and the aftermath — devoting his life to understanding why and how his own government left him and others to suffer and possibly die in the Vietnamese prison camps. And the answers he's uncovered will forever astound and disturb you.

After his chopper was shot down over Vietnam in 1968, Anton spent five years as a prisoner of war in jungle camps. This is the story of that ordeal and the startling revelation after he was released that the U.S. government knew of his exact location all along. Years, later Frank has figured out the answer to the question posed by title.