MIAs: Four Down, One to Go

Four Down, One to Go

For most Americans, the Vietnam War is a painful memory; for families of the 2,273 servicemen listed as missing in action, it is a wound that will not heal. Hope flickered for many of those families last month, when five grainy photos purporting to show surviving U.S. soldiers in Southeast Asia surfaced. Last week the Pentagon disputed the authenticity of four of them, which turned out to have been clipped from Soviet magazine articles published over the past two years. A bearded man in a white shirt shown in one photo was actually a Soviet baker working at a South Pole...

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