Gone But Not Forgotten: MIAs Remembered on 30th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War

Thirty years ago today, North Vietnamese troops entered Saigon and ended the Vietnam War. In observances over there and over here, both sides remembered the horror of war and the loss of so many.

The loss of over 58,000 U.S. soldiers still haunts our nation and the 1,800 men still missing and unaccounted for is a reminder of what still needs to be done.

The recovery of all the men listed as “Missing in Action” will finally close a painful chapter of American history. Until this is accomplished, those families will continue to languish. That isn’t right.

Thirty years is too long to wait to learn that a love one died on some distant battlefield or died in a prisoner of war camp. This issue must be resolved; we owe it to those families, to the men who fought and died there, and to the tens of thousands of veterans who made it home.