U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta accepts letters from Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh, in Hanoi, Vietnam, June 4, 2012. The letters were written by American service members from the Vietnam war. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
U.S., Vietnam Build Trust Through Exchange Of Tender Relics -- Washington Post
HANOI — Vietnamese forces seized the letters from the corpse of a young U.S. Army sergeant named Steve Flaherty after he was killed in battle more than four decades ago.
A few miles south, a U.S. Marine similarly took a thin maroon diary off the chest of a Vietnamese soldier lying dead in a machine gun pit after a firefight.
The two items — relics of a bygone era when the United States and Vietnam were bitter enemies — on Monday became symbols of the evolving U.S.-Vietnamese relationship.
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Vietnam opens new areas for US MIA search -- AFP
Diary, Letters Help Cement Ties Between U.S., Vietnam -- US Department of Defense
U.S. and Vietnam Exchange War Letters -- Wall Street Journal
U.S., Vietnam exchange personal war artifacts -- Marine Times
Excerpts from 3 letters US soldier planned to send home during Vietnam -- Washington Post/AP
Servicemember's letters from Vietnam to be returned to family -- Stars and Stripes
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