If you'd like to see what some others are doing in addition to writing
>their congressmen, senators and the Whitehouse, check out some of these
>sites:
>http://hawk.nji.com/~mred/mialist.htm
Name: Jerry Don Dewberry
Rank/Branch: E4/US Marine Corps
Unit: Company D, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division
Date of Birth: 10 July 1948
Home City of Record: Ardmore OK
Date of Loss: 05 July 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 164505N 1071143E (XD802409)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project (919/527-8079) 15 March
1991 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government
agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published
sources, interviews.
Copyright 1991 Homecoming II Project.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: Lance Corporal Jerry D. Dewberry was assigned to Company D,
1st Battalion, 1st Marines in Vietam. On July 5, 1968, just five days
short of his twentieth birthday, Dewberry was part of a Marine unit
sent on patrol in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. During the patrol,
the unit came under enemy fire and Dewberry was hit.
He was apparently believed to be dead and left behind. Dewberry was
officially listed Killed in Action/Body Not Recovered.
Jerry D. Dewberry is listed among the missing because his remains were
never found to send home to the country he served. For his family, the
case seems clear that he died on that day. The fact that they have no
body to bury with honor is not of great significance. For other who are
missing, however, the evidence leads not to death, but to survival.
Since the war ended, over 10,000 reports received relating to Americans
still held captive in Indochina have convinced experts that hundreds
of men are still alive, waiting for their country to rescue them. The
notion that Americans are dying without hope in the hands of a long-ago
enemy belies the idea that we left Vietnam with honor. It also signals
that tens of thousands of lost lives were a frivolous waste of our best
men. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to keep pushing this
issue inside the Beltway... The need to get specific answers is more
important now than ever before. If still alive, some MIAs are now in
their 70s...They don't have much time left. We have to demand the answers
from the bureaucrats and keep standing on their necks (figuratively speaking)
until they get the message that THEY work for US and that we are serious
about getting these long overdue responses. Diplomatic considerations aside...
We can no longer allow questionable protocols established by
pseudo-aristocratic armchair strategists, to determine or influence the
fate of the men who were in the trenches while the diplomats were
sharing sherry and canapes and talking about "Their Plans" for the
future of SE Asia.
If you'd like to see what some others are doing in addition to writing
their congressmen, senators and the Whitehouse, check out some of these
sites:http://hawk.nji.com/~mred/mialist.htm (will try to fix this link)
Another remarkable site is by an 11 year old angel who never even set
foot on American soil...She not only put up a page...she started a major
project for an organization of Kids on the Net called KeyPals International.
Her MIA page is at[http://www.geocities.com/~angelicdevil/mia.html] but
don't miss her Bring Grandpa Home page at
[http://www.worldkids.net/clubs/kci/projects/Bring.html].
If you come away from that site without a lump in your throat, then you
just weren't paying attention.
We all hope you feel compelled to help with this.God Bless and have a wonderful life.