[ view list ] While surfing POW/MIA
related websites one day, I happened upon two separate web pages
which had a list of Texans still unaccounted for from the Vietnam
War. The problem I encountered was that the numbers from the two
lists did not match. I set out to make a comprehensive list from
a combination of these two lists, weeding out those returned home
-- either alive or dead -- as well as those who were not Texans
by birth or residence (home city of record), and, in one case, a
person who was listed as AWOL. I continued to take off the names
of those men whose remains had been returned and identified since
I began the list (sometime in 2000).
In February of 2004, I received
an e-mail from the wife of one of the men whose name I had
removed. His remains had been returned and identified, but the
identification was disputed. She wanted to know why her husband
was not on my list. To prevent this error from happening again, I
downloaded the PMSEA database of all Texans who were unaccounted for
at war's end, and added in all the names not on my list. Bios are
available for all persons on my list. Please note that this list does not include persons killed in the war whose remains were recovered prior to the war's end.
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