Servicemen Remains Returned From Vietnam

Five Servicemen Lost When Navy Plane Disappeared In 1967 Are Repatriated

(AP)  The remains of five Navy servicemen have been returned to the United States after they disappeared 40 years ago in Vietnam, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Lt. j.g. Norman Roggow of Aurelia, Iowa, was piloting an E-1B Tracer en route from Chu Lai Air Base in Vietnam back to the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany on Oct. 8, 1967. The aircraft was lost from radar about 10 miles northwest of Da Nang, Vietnam.

Others aboard the aircraft were Lt. Andrew Zissu of Bronx, N.Y.; Lt. j.g. Donald Wolfe of Hardin, Mont.; Chief Petty Officer Roland Pineau of Berkley, Mich., and Petty Officer 3rd Class Raul Guerra of Los Angeles.

Adverse weather hampered immediate search efforts, but three days later a search helicopter spotted the wreckage of the aircraft on the face of a steep mountain. The location, terrain and hostile forces in the area precluded a ground recovery, military officials said in a statement.

The crash has been studied since 1993 several times with excavations of the crash site and other locations where remains were believed to have been moved.

In 1993 and 1994, human remains were repatriated to the United States with information that linked the remains to unassociated losses in the same geographical area as this incident. More remains were returned earlier this year.

Military scientists used mitochondrial DNA, dental comparisons and other forensic tools to identify the remains of the troops.

Pineau was buried on Oct. 8 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington. The dates and locations of the funerals for the other servicemen are being set by their families.

The remains will be returned to the families for burial with full military honors.

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Unlike Hitlery and most of the other GOP candidates, Ron Paul actually served his country as a member of the military. Paul grew up in the western Pennsylvania town of Green Tree. His Father, the son of a German immigrant, ran a small dairy company. Sports were big around there and Paul was a terrific athlete, winning a state track meet in the 220 and excelling at football and baseball. After medical school at Duke, Paul joined the Air Force, where he served as a flight surgeon, tending to the ear, nose and throat ailments of pilots, and traveling to Iran, Ethiopia and elsewhere. "I recall doing a lot of physicals on Army warrant officers who wanted to become helicopter pilots and go to Vietnam," he said. "They were gung-ho. I''ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Paul is given to mulling things over morally. His family was pious and Lutheran; two of his brothers became ministers. Paul''s children were baptized in the Episcopal church, but now he attends a Baptist one. He''s been married to the same woman for 50 years. As a young man, though, he did not protest the Vietnam War, which he now calls "totally unnecessary and illegal." Much later, after the United States invaded Iraq, he began reading St. Augustine. "I was annoyed by the evangelicals'' being so supportive of pre-emptive war, which seems to contradict everything that I was taught as a Christian," he recalls. "The religion is based on somebody who''s referred to as the Prince of Peace."

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I want to report a major fire, my friends. Our Constitution is on fire. And it''s currently being burned in Congress. See H.R. 1955, a.k.a., Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. I couldn''t believe it. Apparently, activists with Web sites are really begining to anger the elite insofar as they are publically holding officials accountable for their evil. Here''s a part of the bill, which passed the house on Oct 23, in spite of Congressman, Ron Paul''s opposition thereto. The right to free speech on the Internet is gone, my friends. Look it up for yourself, and weep for your country that our rights have eroded this far. Here''s a short excerpt from the bill''s DEFINITIONS statement: "The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism." Here''s another excerpt from the bill''s FINDINGS statement: "The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens." And guess who get''s to decide what is "terrorist-related propaganda?" You got it! The Department of Homeland Insecurity, an agency that''s answerable ONLY to The President. If Ron Paul isn''t elected, our country is doomed!

[hottexas]

It is awesome to know that even after all this time, our soldiers can still come home. I still wear two POW/MIA bracelets, and will not take them off until my soldiers come home. God bless.

[joyous88]

I remember in the 10th year of the Vietnam war, my third tour, some clowns back in DC were shouting stay
the course - one of them was named Cheney - he had five draft deferments -
Wonder if he is a westboro baptist and if all religionists are really just insane.

remember GW Bush and the war in Iraq were largely brought to us a "MINDLESS CHRISTIAN VOTE"

[blackbug99]

Fair Winds and Following Seas

[sgtrds]

Welcome home bros..........

[wogerwabbit]

sleep well, brothers

[grammawhamma]

I was just going to post the same thing but you beat me to it. Those Westboro Baptists need to be stopped....they are sick sick sick.

[Krazcarl]

Excellent news closure for the family!! Lets see those wackos from Kansas mess with these funerals they will see gods wrath.