'Those families, just like American families are suffering, have heartache and longing to understand what happened to their soldiers,' Maxner said. The challenge then is transitioning that from a document you find in microfilm and then finding the family.'Īt a ceremony in early June in Hanoi, the Texas Tech team was able to deliver six sets of materials, including letters and diaries, to the families of six fallen and still missing Vietnamese troops, Maxner said. In an interview from Hanoi with Lubbock, Texas, TV station KCBD, Steve Maxner, director of the Texas Tech Vietnam Center, said that, in combing through the archives, 'We knew that there would be diaries and materials. government efforts to assist the Vietnamese, a team of officials and students from Texas Tech University is currently in Hanoi to share with the Vietnamese information from the vast archive maintained at the school's Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, including the captured letters and diaries of Vietnamese troops. There's a good chance they're going to find one of our missing.' At a June 28 DPAA media roundtable, Berg said that the Vietnamese in conducting searches inevitably 'will stumble upon something that's not theirs. Gregory Berg, lab case manager for the DPAA's scientific analysis directorate. 'It's a win-win situation for us,' said Dr. also stands to gain in the search for America's missing from Vietnam, according to officials of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. is now 'committed to supporting the people of Vietnam as they seek to identify and ultimately reunite remains of combatants with their loving families.'īy helping the Vietnamese, the U.S.

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