[Mb-civic] A survivor's drive fulfills MIA mission - Boston Globe

[William Swiggard]

A survivor's drive fulfills MIA mission

By Bryan Bender and Charlie Savage, Globe Staff  |  August 11, 2005

WASHINGTON -- On Mother's Day weekend in 1968, a few dozen Marines and 
special forces stationed at a jungle outpost near the border between 
Vietnam and Laos were overrun by the surging North Vietnamese Army.

After a 10-hour battle, the handful of surviving Americans withdrew 
under fire, unable to take fallen comrades with them.

But a Marine vows to leave no fellow Marine behind. After the war, Tim 
Brown, a lance corporal who survived the fight, began lobbying the 
Pentagon to remember the men who had died on that battlefield.

Brown made three trips to Vietnam himself, starting in 1993, to gather 
evidence in support of excavating the battlefield. There would be three 
digs at the site, the most recent in 1999.

<>This week, the Pentagon announced that forensic scientists had 
identified the remains of a dozen servicemen.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/11/a_survivors_drive_fulfills_mia_mission/ 

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