This episode is available exclusively to Texas Monthly Audio subscribers. Subscribe to listen now. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. TM Audio subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for audio stories, bonus podcast episodes, and much more. Already a subscriber? Log in. Listen in your podcast app by linking your TM Audio account. I’d love to have been a fly on the wall and watch those in Washington deciding, “Maybe we better go public because these women are going to cause us problems.”—Carole Hickerson In the midst of the Vietnam War, the U.S. government asked families of missing service members to avoid drawing attention to their loved ones’ plight. Officials believed that publicity around POWs would be fodder for North Vietnamese…