Tuesday, April 30, 2013

U.S. Army Veteran 'Is Found Living In Vietnam Village 44 YEARS After Being Declared MIA



U.S. Army Veteran 'Is Found Living In Vietnam Village 44 YEARS After Being Shot Down And Presumed Dead'... But His Daughters Refuse To Take DNA Tests To Prove His Identity -- Daily Mail

* Sgt. John Hartley Robertson is believed to have died in 1968 over Laos during a special ops mission during the Vietnam War
* A new documentary claims to have found him - aged 76 - still living there
* This man, who remarried, has never contacted the American wife and two children who have believed him dead for 44 years
* Doubts remain over his identity but his sister, who is filmed being reunited with him in the documentary, said she knows it is him

An elderly man found living in south-central Vietnam has claimed to be a U.S. war veteran who was presumed dead after his helicopter was shot down during a special ops mission over Laos in 1968.

But despite the potentially astonishing discovery, the man's two daughters - whom he has never contacted since disappearing - have refused to take a DNA test to prove his identity.

The wife and daughters of Sgt. John Hartley Robertson, a one-time Green Beret, initially agreed to participate in DNA testing, before changing their minds last year, according to a filmmaker behind a new documentary asking whether the man is indeed who he says he is.

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My Comment: This is one soldier who was left behind.

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