Operation Just Cause... ...for as long as it takes
Flying of the POW/MIA Flag About 3 days ago, I decided to fly the Pow Flag with my American flag.
Being an Vietnam Era Vetran that served with the C/2/504 82nd Airborne 1965-1967,I became severly distressed. It hurts me to the core of my soul to have to report to you, especially after all the work I've done to get people and businesses, and Local Government to fly the POW Flag.
If you would like to send a snail mail to the owners of the building where James lives to politely ask why both flags cannot be displayed in front of his place, please send them to:
Executive Manor Apartments
The remains of an American serviceman previously unaccounted-for from
the
war in Southeast Asia have been identified and are being returned to his
family for burial in the United States.
He is identified as Army Specialist 4th Class Roger L. Smith of South
Point,
Ohio.
On Oct. 3, 1968, Smith was the crew chief aboard a UH-1H Huey helicopter
flying on a command-and-control mission. While over Tay Ninh Province,
South
Vietnam, the aircraft was hit by enemy ground fire and crashed, catching
fire almost immediately. Two of the crewmembers were rescued, but two
others
perished. Onsite attempts to locate Smith's body among the smoke and
aircraft wreckage were unsuccessful.
In November 1993, a joint US/Vietnam team, led by the Joint Task
Force-Full
Accounting, interviewed several villagers in Tay Ninh Province who
supplied
information about the wreckage of a US helicopter. One of the villagers
said
she had found the burned wreckage of a helicopter in 1977 or 1978 and
observed what she believed to be human remains. She led the team to the
crash site where they confirmed the presence of the wreckage and
recovered
small pieces of wreckage and two boot fragments.
In October and November 1994 a joint U.S./Vietnam team excavated the
crash
site surveyed the previous year. The team recovered bone fragments as
well
as crew-related artifacts amid the wreckage.
Anthropological analysis of the remains and other evidence by the US
Army
Central Identification Laboratory Hawaii confirmed Smith's
identification.
With the accounting of this serviceman, the remains of 523 servicemen
have
been identified since the end of the war. There are currently 2,060
Americans still unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War.
The US government welcomes and appreciates the cooperation of the
government
of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which resulted in the accounting
of
this serviceman. We hope that such cooperation will bring increased
results
in the future. Achieving the fullest possible accounting for these
Americans
is of the highest national priority.
Sent in by James Query
200 Kimber Lane
Evansville, In 47715-2819
Sent in by Veterans News and Information Services
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