Suspected US troop remains sent home from Vietnam

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Remains believed to be those of two American servicemen killed during the Vietnam War were placed on a plane in central Danang city on Wednesday and sent back to the United States to be identified.

U.S. honor guards carried the two American flag-draped aluminum cases holding the remains onto the U.S. military transport plane under blazing sun at Danang International Airport. The remains were headed to Hawaii for forensic testing.

One set of remains was recovered by joint excavation teams in central Quang Tri province over the past month and the other was handed over by Vietnamese citizens, said Ron Ward, a spokesman for the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command detachment in Hanoi.

Ward said one set of remains is believed to belong to a member of ground forces, while the other could be of a serviceman who died in a helicopter crash.

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Welcome home.

[Mnemosyne]

1. Welcome home. What a relief it will be for a couple of families, after so long a wait...

Thank you for this, Coventina.