September 29, 1989 

SBV/RSM News

By Amanda Wray News Staff Writer

         More than 20 years have passed since Ken Braden was a prisoner of war, but it has taken that long for him to don a POW/MIA bracelet.

         His red aluminum band reminds him that Air Force Sgt.  Joseph A. Matejov never came home after his plane was shot down over Laos in 1973.

         As recently  as 1985, Braden, 43, of El Toro, said four MIAs were sighted but skeptics say servicemen still missing in action are probably no longer alive.  Braden is not so sure....

October 2000

Braden resurfaced in October 2000 on AOL chatroom NAMVET   [kenwbrad].  Claimed the USAF finally recognized him and gave him "an honorary appointment to the academy"  in 1993!!!

Quotes from Braden -- " I know there is no proof"

"I have the scars to prove it"

"That's the way it was"

"I would go to Leavenworth if I told the truth"

" The North Viet Col that was in charge of my capture lives in Fountain Valley CA"