The POW/MIA flag flies over all US government buildings. It is the emblem of a pernicious myth – the conviction that at the end of the Vietnam War the U.S. abandoned thousands of its own to the enemy. This conspiracy theory, Robbyn Swan (The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 & Osama bin Laden) will argue, fed a culture war that shapes a suspicious, cynical and divided U.S. today. Trump’s MAGA is a direct consequence of a collective failure to rescue history from the grasp of scoundrels.

