Soldier now REALLY Pi**ed Off

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Article in today's paper says

civilians traveling in Southeast Asia when they were killed in 1974, were discovered this month in a rice field in central Laos.

Dean, his mother, Andree and his brothers Bill & Jim stood with their hands over their hearts as the remains were repatriated.

Charles Dean, who had worked in the antiwar campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern and Sharman were believed killed to have been imprisoned and killed by communist insurgents.

"This has been a long and emotional journey for my mother, Jim, Bill and me" Dean said. "We greet this news with mixed emotions but are gratified the we have closure for this painful episode in our lives."

Dean said his younger brother "touched the lives of everyone who knew him. I miss him every single day, and I'll never stop being inspired by his passion and idealism."

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Sharman's brother, Ian, also attended the somber ceremony, and he and Dean thanked the military for recovering the remains.

They have not been positively identified, but Dean has said he is confident they include his younger brother because of personal items found at the site, including shoes and a bracelet.

As governor of Vermont, Dean had visited a site in Laos last year to push for excavation. A U.S. investigation into the disappearance had begun in 1991, and the first of two joint U.S.-Laotian excavation teams began digging in August.

Charles Dean and Sharman were arrested by the communist Pathet Lao on Sept. 5, 1974, during a trip down the Mekong River in Laos. They apparently were suspected of being spies, although the U.S. and Australian governments said they were merely tourists and strongly protested their detention.

Although Charles Dean was a civilian, the government considers the possibility that any remains recovered may be of missing servicemen, so treats them as such.
Sounds like an excuse to me. They seem to already know who they are.

The remains of 182 Americans have been recovered in Laos since U.S.-sponsored recovery teams began operating in the country in 1992. Some 387 Americans are still missing in Laos from the Vietnam War era.
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