Among the Missing

Lily Dizon’s masterful account of the search for her missing-in-action father opened a floodgate of emotions for me (“Searching for Nguyen Tan Hung, Aug. 28). I left Vietnam in February, 1969, after serving a tour and a half as a Marine captain, but only now have I “rescued” my ribbons and medals from their dusty repository to encase in glass for selected friends to view.

The article has also motivated me to search for the wife of my close friend and roommate at the Basic School in Quantico, Va. I remember vividly the shock of reading in Stars and Stripes, “MIA: Capt. Patrick P. Murray, USMC.” Many of my friends were KIA, but Pat was the only MIA.

My heart goes out to Dizon and the thousands of relatives of MIAs, American and Vietnamese, who suffer the fate of never really knowing the status of their loved ones.

Gary Nash

Lake Forest