Revisiting Vietnam: Vietnam's MIA's

US OFFICIALS STILL ARE SEARCHING for the remains of roughly 1,500 American soldiers who never came home from the Vietnam war. The government of Vietnam says it still can't find 300,000 of its own soldiers. With 25 years gone by, the Vietnamese are turning to unconventional methods to trace the missing in action.

Every Sunday night, people across Vietnam tune their televisions to their country's version of Unsolved Mysteries. This program searches for the remains of North Vietnamese soldiers who disappeared while fighting against the South Vietnamese and the United States..........Rest Here

Listen to report, brings up real player

The number of walls the size of the Vietnam Memorial it would take to list all Vietnamese who died in the war: 69 Source

Vietnam: U.S. MIA Remains Returned

Vietnam to hand over more US MIA remains

The remains of what are believed to be US servicemen who died in the Vietnam War will be handed over to the US government on September 12 in the 111th repatriation ceremony held by the two nations.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The remains to be handed over at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport include those recovered by a

Vietnamese excavation team in central Vietnam, as well as remains turned over by Vietnamese citizens. The exact number of persons the remains account for will be released at the ceremony, according to the US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City.

US Ambassador to Vietnam Michael Michalak and US Army Lieutenant Colonel Todd G. Emoto will represent the US government at the ceremony.

So far, the remains of 909 Americans have been identified in and around Indochina since US troops officially left Vietnam in 1973: 645 in Vietnam, 230 in Laos, 31 in Cambodia and three in China, according to the US Embassy in Hanoi.

There are 1,737 Americans still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War, including 1,322 in Vietnam, the embassy said in a statement.

Spiritualists to help find Vietnam's MIAs

Yesterday, 3-1-08, while surfing I had the BBC TV on a video player, BBC World came on with a report about the search for Vietnamesse MIA's, still going on after all these years after the American Invasion of that country.

It was a really interesting mini doc. A search of the site doesn't bring it up, apparently soon we may be able to view these reports, site says something about a beta program being developed for archived shows and reports.

But I did find this report from 2000 on the same subject matter:

The government in Vietnam has turned to spiritual advisers to help find the remains of Vietnamese people killed during the War which ended twenty-five years ago.

The Chief of the Scientific Anticipation Unit, in the Research Centre for the Hidden Abilities of Vietnamese People, said the organisation had been asked to take part in the search.

The official Nguyen Phuc Giac Hai said three experts were searching for people missing-in-action, known as MIAs, and they were capable of finding up to twenty sets of remains each day.

Correspondents say Vietnam has three-hundred-thousand MIAs, and many people believe in the ability of the spiritualists to provide detailed maps of the location of the remains of their loved-ones. The return of American MIAs has also been a major issue in improving bilateral relations.

The report yesterday, a mini doc, was more indepth and aired for about a half hour

The Remnants of War, Especially Wars of Choice!!