Sailors MIA from Vietnam War Found, Identified

[stormy]

Sailors MIA from Vietnam War Found, Identified

Navy News Service
May 29, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The remains of nine U.S. Navy crew members, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified, and their remains are being returned to their families for burial.

The nine are identified as Cmdr. Delbert A. Olson, Casselton, N.D.; Lt.j.g.s Denis L. Anderson, Hope, Kan.; Arthur C. Buck, Sandusky, Ohio; and Philip P. Stevens, Twin Lake, Mich.; Petty Officers 2nd class Richard M. Mancini, Amsterdam, N.Y.; Michael L. Roberts, Purvis, Miss., Donald N. Thoresen and Kenneth H. Widon, Detroit and Petty Officer 3rd class Gale R. Siow, Huntington Park, Calif.

A group burial will be held at Arlington National Cemetery June 18, 2003.

The nine departed Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base Jan. 11, 1968, aboard a Navy OP-2E Neptune aircraft for a mission over Laos to drop sensors which detected enemy movements. During its last radio contact, the crew reported they were descending through dense clouds. When they did not return to their home base, a search was initiated but found no evidence of a crash. Two weeks later, an Air Force aircrew photographed what appeared to be the crash site, but enemy activity in the area prevented a recovery operation.

With all this news---they still report trivial things! (http://www.military.com/NewsContent?file=usn 1_052903&ESRC=dod.nl)

[Der Alte]

Good news for their families. There are many aircraft that went down in southeast asia that have never been found. The surprizing thing is that the military never stops looking and occasionally find one that crashed during WWII.

[stormy]

What troubles me about the news media is that every hour on the hour they have a newscast on the radio. As I listened last night, I couldn't help thinking that a 10 yr. old could do the news!! They keep saying the same thing over and over and most of it is trivial and a lot of it still comes from the NY Times.

Not one time have I heard anything about this on any newscast? Of course, I don't have cable so I may be the only one who hadn't heard about it! And, this was in the military news!!

Stormy

[Der Alte]

Stormy, I have cable and they report the same junk over and over. I often wonder who puts the news together for the networks - they certainly don't do a very good job. I guess its easier to come up with a daily senario and if no major breaking news comes in, just repeat the same thing every hour or so. Shame we don't have enough money to start our own station - we would beat the rest of them without raising a sweat.

[stormy]

That may be one reason why Rush is so popular and Matt Drudge (although I have trouble listening to him)--at least, they do bring out some of these things that we discuss on here.

But, you and I both lived in the days when people actually went out and got the news!! They didn't just report a story from a newspaper! Of course, we still get all the dirt on a conservative and the stupid things that Byrd says!

The only time I've heard them discuss (well, at least John McCain mentioned it) the mass graves, the children being imprisoned, etc. was on the Sunday morning show! Not once have I heard it from a network "NEWS" broadcast!!

And, I think you're right about us doing better than they do--but--I have grandchildren who could probably do better with just a wee bit of effort. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Stormy

[Constitutional American]

This is good news for the families. I can't imagine how difficult it must be just not knowing. Let's hope they can get some closure from this.

Quote[/b] ]What troubles me about the news media is that every hour on the hour they have a newscast...They keep saying the same thing over and over
I couldn't agree more Stormy. I'm amazed that with so many 24/7 news outfits around now that they don't seem to cover any more news content. I check out the cable news channels on my break at work & all I'm seeing is Scott Peterson right now. Meanwhile there are millions of stories getting ignored while that nonsense is being spoonfed to us hourly.
Shame on them all...

[Charie]

I'm so glad that our military keeps looking. It's a sign of moral character to take care of ones dead. It's probably lack of moral character that it doesn't rate a mention on the national news.

Going out and getting the news costs more than just reading the New York Times on the television stations. *Also, the reporters are getting too lazy to get out and find a story. *They have way too much fun in Washington, hobnobbing with the pols and each other. *Who in he]] wants to go out and dig up a story when you can just repeat the same old stuff that's already been said.

AND they will pay no attention to news that comes from a conservative source. *The Paula Jones story is a prime example of that bias.