More Remains of American MIAs Repatriated
A ceremony for the repatriation to the US of two sets of remains believed to belong to American soldiers missing in the Vietnam war was held at Da Nang International Airport on Feb. 14.
The Repatriation Ceremony was co-organised by the Detachment Two under the Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Command (JPAC) and the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP).
Two sets of remains were recovered from two sites in northern and central Vietnam.
Attending the ceremony were high-ranking diplomatic officials of the U.S and Vietnam, among them General Consulate Seth Winnick in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Duc Hung, Assistant to Vietnam's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Nguyen Nho Trung, Vice Director of Da Nang's Agency for External Affairs.
Source: CPV/VNA - Feb 14 2006.
