A Vietnam veteran from New Jersey recently returned something he found on the battlefield almost six decades ago. It seemed an impossible task, but he soon found out the information he needed was right in front of him. KJohnsonOnAir reports.
They raised children and decades passed. The 100-page diary remained mostly hidden away -- its owner unknown, its writings untranslated.
Another poem read,"It's a beautiful country. Mountains, birds, singing, waiting for spring but sleeping with a gun." A story of his search appeared in a local online article, which eventually got the attention of the Vietnamese government. Within days, the soldier's family learned of the news. Mathews recalls the moment he actually handed the diary over to the owner's family,"like I handed over a cinder block," adding,"It felt light once I gave it to her."
He read another entry about a girlfriend,"how he loved her and how he mentioned he was going to ask for hand when he returned." He says that girlfriend is now 80 years old, but she never married.
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