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| US: Film's Vietnam Vet Find after 44 Years False |
| 2013-05-04 |
| [An Nahar] A man who claimed in a widely publicized documentary to be an American soldier, missing since his helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War, is actually Vietnamese, the U.S. said Thursday. "Unclaimed", directed by Michael Jorgensen, which has generated an explosion of interest since its premiere this week, purports to have discovered U.S. serviceman John H. Robertson -- alive, well and living in the communist nation. But a United States Defense Department statement said the man -- who appeared on film in an emotional "reunion" with Robertson's sister -- has been DNA tested and found to be a citizen of the Southeast Asian country. "All claims and alleged live sighting reports related to Robertson have been investigated and found to be false," according to a release from the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office on Thursday, provided to Agence France Presse by the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. A tightly edited trailer for the movie, posted on production company Myth Merchant Films' website, does not show any clear full-face images of the Vietnamese man, known by the name Dang Ngoc Than. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 So glad it isn't true after all. Because there really are people still being held in North Korea, and no doubt elsewhere in the former Communist world. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-05-04 13:15 |
| #1 A tightly edited trailer for the movie, posted on production company Myth Merchant Films' website shocked. shocked. Isn't this the same company that did John F'n Kerry's reenactments of his purple heart incidents? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-05-04 12:00 |