As an airforce pilot, 
Pete Peterson spent over six years as a prisoner of the 
North Vietnamese. He returned to 
Hanoi in 
1997 as the first 
U.S. ambassador to Communist Vietnam with the goal of advancing US interests and securing an accounting of those still listed as missing-in-action from the 
war.
 
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