FACTS When the Vietnam war ended in 1973 with the Paris peace accords. there were 2.553 men still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. 1.178 were listed as KIAbodies not recovered. And there were 1.279 listed as MIA and 96 remained as POWs. In the almost 10 years that have elapsed. only 77 remains have been returned out of the 2.553. In Laos. where 559 men were MIA. only 2 remains have been returned and no information regarding the men held in the huge caves in Sam Neau has been released. Within the last few years. there have been 280 firsthand live sighting reports from refugees and 170 secondhand reports on American soldiers in Southeast Asia. Only two men are still listed as MIA: Maj. Jeffery Lemon.
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