Posted on May 19, 2016

This US soldier ‘found alive’ in Vietnam 44 years after being left behind

Capt Seid Waddell

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"There is physical proof of Robertson’s birthplace, collected in dramatic fashion onscreen; a tearful meeting in Vietnam with a soldier who was trained by Robertson in 1960 and said he knew him on sight

Jorgenson encountered so much resistance from the US military making his film that he says he’s convinced one ‘high-placed government source’ was telling the truth when he said, ‘It’s not that the Vietnamese won’t let him (Robertson) go; it’s that our government doesn’t want him’."

This US soldier ‘found alive’ in Vietnam 44 years after being left behind

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SFC Jim Ruether

Posted 8 y ago

I have been a member of Minnesota Won't Forget POW/MIA's since I was in high school. I got to know the family of the Bell "Huey"Helicopter Pilot whose name Cpt. Richard Schell I wore on my wrist band and I waited like they did for word from their son, brother, cousin that never came. Numerous reports placed him and others on railway platforms for their rides to North Korea, or Russia to work in Labor Camps after any useful information was extracted from them. Numerous sightings in the different interment camps were sent back and shared only to have the prisoner moved to another camp. What our country did or more importantly what they didn't do when they were asked to account for these missing in action soldiers is a shameful part of the Vietnam and Korean war history.

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Capt Seid Waddell

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SFC Jim Ruether, as I recall there was one or two prisoners from the Korean war released along with our prisoners from Viet Nam. One still had the spirit to say that he did not recommend the experience.

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