Lindh, Frank - short clip - LetterNeverDelivered
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| - | I didn't know about this before, | 0:00 |
| but the Red Cross under the Geneva Conventions | 0:01 | |
| will take letters to prisoners | 0:05 | |
| of war from their family. | 0:07 | |
| And they actually literally have a form for that. | 0:10 | |
| That's been developed and they are named. | 0:14 | |
| The Red Cross is actually | 0:17 | |
| named in the Geneva Conventions | 0:18 | |
| as the organization that's authorized to do this. | 0:20 | |
| So I went to my local Red Cross office | 0:22 | |
| in San Rafael, California | 0:25 | |
| and sure enough, they had that form. | 0:27 | |
| And then I called ahead. | 0:30 | |
| So they knew I was coming | 0:31 | |
| and I was able to write a little letter to John. | 0:32 | |
| It's just like sort of a postcard size form. | 0:34 | |
| And it says only information | 0:37 | |
| of a family nature or something to that. | 0:39 | |
| If that's the guideline that they give you. | 0:41 | |
| And I just wrote a little note | 0:43 | |
| that John we love you | 0:46 | |
| and we support you and we have a lawyer for you. | 0:47 | |
| So please ask the authorities | 0:53 | |
| to allow mama and me and the lawyer | 0:55 | |
| to come and visit you. | 0:57 | |
| And then I gave it to the lady | 0:59 | |
| at the Red Cross and she had it | 1:00 | |
| sent through Geneva in Switzerland | 1:03 | |
| to be delivered to John in Afghanistan. | 1:07 | |
| But the American military I learned later | 1:12 | |
| would not allow any of this | 1:14 | |
| to get through to John. | 1:16 | |
| I actually wrote multiple times to him | 1:17 | |
| try to get those letters through | 1:19 | |
| under the Geneva Conventions, you know, | 1:22 | |
| to have that contact with him | 1:24 | |
| from his family but the Americans, | 1:25 | |
| when the American government, | 1:27 | |
| when it invaded Afghanistan | 1:29 | |
| declared and meant they meant what they said, | 1:31 | |
| they were not going | 1:33 | |
| to follow the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan. | 1:34 | |
| It was really literally true. | 1:37 | |
| They said it and they meant it. | 1:39 |
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