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POW 30 DAYS, 90 DAYS, CHANGES

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Ex-POWs share the bond of survival

BYLINE: HANSELL, SALLY Sally Hansell Staff Writer Cobb 
DATE: March 20, 1986
PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution
EDITION: The Atlanta Journal Constitution
SECTION: EXTRA
PAGE: G/1

A group of some 30 former war prisoners living in Cobb and Cherokee counties are flesh-and-blood survivors of some of the nation's most historic military engagements like Normandy, Corregidor, the Bataan Death March and the Battle of the Bulge. The North Central Georgia Chapter of American Ex-Prisoners of War Inc., a Congressionally chartered group, unites approximately 30 veterans from World War II and the Korean and Vietnamese wars, i....
"They're a unique and positively vanishing breed. They did things that you and I only remember from history books," 38-year-old Bane Ashley of Marietta said of the graying veterans, downplaying his own heroism as a Green Beret and Ranger captured in the Vietnam War.....

Vet says films like Rambo mislead
Ex-prisoner of war says movie heroics give false sense of hope

BYLINE: DOLMAN, CATHY S Cathy S. Dolman Staff Writer STAFF 
DATE: July 20, 1985
PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution
EDITION: The Atlanta Journal Constitution
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS
PAGE: A/20

No one like Rambo is going to help Americans discover the fate of missing soldiers in Southeast Asia and popular movies portraying such single-handed heroics are a disservice to the country, according to a former prisoner of war. "If we start believing in these things, we'll start pulling away from what those who fight and prisoners of war really go through," said Bane Ashley, who served as a Green Beret and a Ranger in the Vietnam War. ......

Ashley, who is now studying to be a veterinarian, was held prisoner by the Vietnamese for several months before escaping.

Metro Digest
Library vote, city election may conflict

DATE: July 18, 1985
PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution
EDITION: The Atlanta Constitution
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS
PAGE: A/36

... At the Veterans Administration Hospital on Clairmont Road in DeKalb County, a service will be held at 2 p.m. in the hospital chapel. A Vietnam prisoner of war who escaped from captivity, Dr. Bane Ashley, will speak at the service. The public is invited.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day was established to honor the 92,000 former prisoners of war as well as members of the armed forces listed as missing in action. ...

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July 21, 2005

Sex abuse charge against former judge may disappear

CORVALLIS -- A former judge in Corvallis has a record of his own. He pled guilty to the sex abuse of a fifteen year old girl.  But could he be back on the bench soon?....

The P.O.W. Network says Ashley did serve in Viet Nam but was not a prisoner of war.

Another group, the American Ex-P.O.W.'s say they kicked Ashley out of their membership because he would not show them proper evidence of P.O.W. status.

And the U.S. Ranger Army Association also asked Ashley to leave after they say he showed fake documents about his awards......