A ceremony to repatriate the purported remains of U.S. servicemen who died during the American war in Vietnam took place in the central city of Da Nang on Sunday. The event organized at Da Nang International Airport was attended by representatives from the Board of Directors of Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel and representatives of the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and the U.S. MIA Office in Hanoi. The Vietnamese representatives handed over three boxes of remains to the U.S. side which were turned in by Vietnamese people and recovered during the 115th Joint Field Activities from May to June this year. The remains had been jointly reviewed by Vietnam and U.S. forensic specialists who concluded that they might be associated with U.S. servicemen who went missing during the war. It was recommended that the remains be brought to Hawaii in the U.S. for further review. Addressing the repatriation ceremony, a U.S. government representative expressed deep gratitude and high appreciation for the steadfast humanitarian policy, good-will and increasingly efficient cooperation of the Vietnamese government and people. The search for the remains of U.S. servicemen is conducted with humanitarian cooperation between the governments of the two countries.

This is the 131th hand-over of American missing servicemen’s remains since 1973.

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