Sunday, May 20, 2012

Finding And Retrieving America's Fallen



50 Years After Start Of Vietnam War, US Presses To Recover Remains -- Stars and Stripes

DANANG, Vietnam - Colleen Shine was only 8 when her father’s jet was shot out of the sky over Vietnam in 1972.

Lt. Col. Anthony Shine was declared missing in action after the A-7D reconnaissance jet he was piloting disappeared over jagged mountains near the border of Laos.

“My mother didn’t know if she was a wife or a widow, and we didn’t know if my dad might walk back in that door,” recalled his daughter, who became an activist with the National League of POW/MIA Families in the following years.

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My Comment: This is work that (unfortunately) has a huge backlog of cases.

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