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Special Forces Green Beret Master Sgt. John Hartley Robertson had forgotten how to speak English over the 44 years since he was left behind in the Vietnam War. But he never forgot that he was a father, husband and an American soldier, born in Alabama, shot down over Laos in a 1968 classified mission.

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Instead, in Emmy-winning Edmonton filmmaker Michael Jorgensen’s documentary Unclaimed, we meet a slightly stooped, wiry 76-year-old man living in a remote village in south-central Vietnam who trembles with frustration or pounds his forehead when he is unable to remember his birthday or his American children’s names. He is only able to speak Vietnamese.
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This will be a fascinating story if true.



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That sounds very interesting for sure
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Y'all do remember that it was John Kerry that ordered the destruction of all the MIA-POW files don't you?
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Interesting if true.

Unclaimed
http://www.movieunclaimed.com/acrossthefence/index.php/mnu-soldiers/john-hartley-robertson

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Y'all do remember that it was John Kerry that ordered the destruction of all the MIA-POW files don't you?

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  Further, Kerry never pushed or put up a fight to get key government documents unclassified; he just rolled over, no matter how obvious it was that the documents contained confirming data about prisoners. Moreover, after promising to turn over all committee records to the National Archives when the panel concluded its work, the senator destroyed crucial intelligence information the staff had gathered—to to keep the documents from becoming public.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-02-17/news/when-john-kerry-s-courage-went-m-i-a/1/
 
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A year after he issued the committee report, on the night of January 26, 1994, Kerry was on the Senate floor pushing through a resolution calling on President Clinton to lift the 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam. In the debate, Kerry belittled the opposition, saying that those who still believed in abandoned P.O.W.'s were perpetrating a hoax. "This process," he declaimed, "has been led by a certain number of charlatans and exploiters, and we should not allow fiction to cloud what we are trying to do here."

....and then his brother-in-law got OK-ed to build his 150 million Vietnamese resort. If I remember correctly.
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Revealed: Vietnam veteran found alive in jungle after 44 years exposed as a FAKE and ex-special forces even 'secretly collected his DNA' 22 years-ago to prove it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2317464/Revealed-Vietnam-veteran-alive-jungle-44-years-exposed-FAKE-ex-special-forces-secretly-collected-DNA-22-years-ago-prove-it.html

It is appears it is a hoax.
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A Defense Prisoner of War Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) memo sent to the MailOnline from 2009 acknowledges that the man, known as Dang Tan Ngoc, came to the attention of U.S. personnel in Vietnam in 2006.

He was interviewed and under questioning admitted that he was not Sgt. Robertson but a Vietnamese citizen - but in 2008 again tried to pose as Sgt. Robertson and was taken to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh where he was fingerprinted.

The fingerprints were evaluated by the FBI, which, in a February 2009 report concluded Ngoc's fingerprints did not match those in Sgt. Robertson's official records.

They concluded that these attempts to claim the identity of a MIA solider were to defraud the U.S. Government of money in military back-pay.
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Figures it was too good to be true
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At least this thread and JohnnyReb brought info I did not know about Kerry. Thanks, JohnnyReb.
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Y'all do remember that it was John Kerry that ordered the destruction of all the MIA-POW files don't you?

He did a lot of destruction.

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