After the Hero's Welcome

For six years Eugene "Red" McDaniel was a POW. In After the Hero's Welcome Dorothy McDaniel chronicles her fight to find information on her POW husband, and his subsequent release from a North Vietnam prison and their subsequent struggle to persuade the US government to conduct search-and-rescue missions for prisoners they believed were still being held.

• Twentieth Anniversary Edition!
• Original edition was well-received.
• A continuing controversial subject. There is a recent controversial documentary by filmmaker Michael Jorgensen about the abandoned Vietnam POWs.

Dorothy H. McDaniel of Alexandria, VA

Dorothy Howard is the wife of Eugene Red McDaniel, a naval officer who would spend six years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dorothy taught English in the Virginia Beach public schools. During Red's last tour of military service, Director of Navy/Marine Corps Liaison to the U.S. House of Representatives, Dorothy served as Press Secretary to Congressman Charlie Dougherty (R-PA).