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No One Left Behind: The Lt. Commander Scott Speicher Story Winner of the FOREWORD Magazine 2003 Book of the Year Gold Award for Audio Non-Fiction Winner of the Publishers Weekly 2002 Listen Up Award for Non-Fiction
On the opening eve of the Gulf War, an American pilot was shot down over Iraq. Two years later, the stunning discovery of the wreckage set of an investigation that, despite government insistence to the contrary, proved that the pilot had not only survived the crash, but was captured and might still be alive today... Read Chapter 1 An author and former intelligence officer breaks the incredible true story of the firs American pilot shot down during the Gulf War - found alive eleven years after his own government left him for dead. Around midnight on January 16, 1991, Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher launches from the deck of the USS Saratoga in the Red Sea, joining a fleet of forty F/A-18 Hornet set to deliver the first air strike of the Gulf War. It is a mission he wasn't initially scheduled to fly - and from which he would never return. Moments after an assault by an Iraqi MIG, Speicher's plane reportedly vanishes in a blazing fireball over the Baghdad desert. The next day, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell tell the public that Speicher was the first casualty of the Gulf War. He is listed as Killed in Action. His young wife and family are devastated. Two months later, a colonel in the Kuwaiti secret police claims to have been in the same hospital ward as a captured American pilot. In December of 1993, pieces of a wrecked F/A/18 hornet are confirmed to be Speicher's downed Hornet. Six months later, a military investigation begins. On January 10, 2001, on the basis of reemerging evidence (brought to light partly thanks to Amy Yarsinske's dogged research), Speicher is officially declared Missing in Action, the first time in history that a U. S serviceman's status has ever been changed. Tracking this explosive story for eight years, Amy Waters Yarsinske interviewed top government and military officials, diplomats, pilots, informers, and Iraqi defectors. The result is a sunning true account of the denials and cover-ups that obscured an essential fact: Speicher actually survived. In No One Left Behind, she takes readers behind the intrigue and the lies to solve this ten-year-old mystery and unearth the truth of what really happened that dark night over Iraq in 1991. Amy Waters Yarsinske is the author of over two dozen books, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for her six-part series in the Virginian Pilot on Scott Speicher, written with Lon Wagner. A former Intelligence Officer in the naval reserves, she lives with her husband - a former naval aviator and Desert Storm veteran - in Norfolk, Virginia. From the back cover: "There is enough evidence to bring this whole situation into question. [The United States should] 'pursue every avenue' we can to find out what happened...that's an American tradition." -Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), author of Faith of My Fathers "The fact is, there continue to be reports from what would have some degree of credibility that he's still alive." - Sen. Bob Graham (D.-Fla.) "[Speicher's] story is one fo excessive American caution...at worst if is one of lies and cover-up..Either way, it amoutns to an extraordinary betrayal of the U.S. military's proud boast that 'no man is left behind." - The Times (London), March 14, 2002 My question is in reference to an overriding principle, it seems to me, of what we tand for within our military that is synonymous with our American values....And I think in underscores the issue that we leave no one behind. I think unfortunately ye, doe to past mistakes now viewed in eleven years of 20/20 hindsight...that that is what we did with reference to a young man by the name of Michael Scott Speicher, who was the first pilot shot down in the Gulf War, back in 1991." - Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kans.), before the Senate Armed Services Committee (Roberts is currently petitioning the U.S. military to change Speicher's status from MIA to POW.) Copyright © 2003 by Amy Waters Yarsinske Published by: Dutton A member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 www.penguinputnam.com Get your copy of this controversial book: Available at Prince Books, Norfolk, VA. Also available at:
Several customer reviews available here. Review from Naval Aviation News, Nov-Dec 2002 No One Left Behind, the Audio Book, is available from Listen & Live Audio. Winner of the ForeWord Magazine Gold Award for Audio Non-Fiction! Scott Speicher - Dead or Alive? By LON WAGNER AND AMY WATERS YARSINSKE, The Virginian-Pilot © December 30, 2001
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of America News originally broadcast 08-30-02 The story as presented by CNN.com: Report suggests missing pilot alive in Iraq, Friday, January 10, 2003. U.S. probes fate of pilot downed in 1991, Tuesday, April 8, 2003. CNN LIVE TODAY: Search for Scott Speicher; Aired April 17, 2003 - 10:38 ET B B C News: Perspectives on Iraq "The POW Hunter" News Articles concerning Scott Speicher and the release of No One Left Behind, from the archives of Advocacy & Intelligence Index for POW-MIAs, Inc.,: May 14, 2003 PGW - Was Scott Speicher Sacrificed to Save Face? A WorldNetDaily article on the All POW-MIA InterNetwork Daily News listing.
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book sparks disputes Sites Dedicated to Scott Speicher: Friends Working to Free Scott Speicher Reviews: Internet Bookwatch Audio Bookshelf. Millitary Law Review, Vol. 174, December 2002
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