Vietnam War death toll.

The Virginian Pilot-newspaper from Virginia Beach, VA.-published on Memorial Day this year a listing of the number of US service personnel killed in the Vietnam War.  They list a total of 58,230 and the deaths by year as follows: 1956 to 64 = 416, 1965 = 1928, 1966 = 6350, 1967 = 11,362, 1968 = 16899, 1969 = 11,780, 1970 = 6173, 1971 = 2414, 1972 to 2006 = 897.  The article also lists those who died from the Virginia Beach area, and the first death is listed as 1961; the last death listed as 1979.  We left in 1973 and the war ended in 1975 with the North Vietnamese taking over the entire country.  Why then are there seven listed killed from the Virginia Beach area at a time when the war was supposedly over?  I wonder how many died there after 1975 from the US in all.  On further reading of the article those death were listed when they were declared dead, not when they might actually had been killed. (The Virginian Pilot on 5/25/15 "Vietnam War: Remember" (One should not jump to conclusions without all the facts considered first; a valuable lesson).

World War II prisoner exchange

The book-The Train to Crystal City-details a secret prisoner exchange program with Germany during the war.  The author is Jan Jarboe Russell.  Some German's and their families living in this country were taking in custody and held in a secret internment camp in Texas called Crystal City.  At some point during the war they were exchanged for Americans trapped in Germany when the war broke out; diplomats, businessmen and POW's.  The review states "Axis nationals living abroad in 13 Latin American countries were also deported to the United States, arrested for illegal entry and delivered to Crystal City..." based on same unproven idea that they might be engaged in pro Axis propaganda  and espionage.  The camp at 290 acres, held 6000 people from Dec 1942 till Feb 1948; some being American citizens by virtue of birth in the US.  The exchanges were known as "quiet passages" with many going to countries destroyed by war.  President Reagan issued a formal apology in 1988 for the internment of Japanese Americans and Congress offered restitution amounting to $ 37 million (I knew a man-a child at the time of internment-who got $ 20,000).  German and German Americans-some 10,000-were never issued an apology or restitution (as of the date of this review).  I believe we-history teachers-have all heard of the internment of Japanese Americans, but I have never heard of the this treatment of German Americans during the war.  Info from a book review in The Virginian Pilot "Shameful chapter for a Nation of Immigrants" by Megan McDonough of the Washington Post on May 24, 2015.