Hanoi opens 3 MIA search areas, releases letters

June 4, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune

“If Dad calls, tell him I got too close to being dead but I’m O.K. I was real lucky. I’ll write again soon.”
That poignant message never reached the mother of Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty. He was killed in Vietnam in 1969 before he could mail the letters he was carrying, including one he might have been writing when he died. Continue Reading