John Hartli Robertson, is one of the 60,000 names engraved in the Vietnam Veterans monument, in Washington, where the wife and two children visited many times. But what if Robertson was killed in a special secret mission in Laos in 1968, as stated in official military records, but today is alive and well.
This raises questions concerning the new documentary film "Unclaimed" (soldier who was not asked), under which the former representative of the "Green Berets" in South Vietnam today is 76 years, and can not remember his birthday do not even remember the names of his children and has already forgotten the English language.
The filmmakers say the gaunt man could easily be lost pledge of war, who never returned home
Robertson today
"Sergeant Robertson" has confessed that director Michael Jorgensen was taken hostage during a battle when his helicopter had caught fire and was down on the top of a mountain of Laos. North Vietnamese fighters had captured immediately.
"I plugged in a cage, deep in the mountains. I fainted several times and I'm still awake, because they were harassed and tired leaving me hungry. The North Vietnamese soldier beat me with a stick on the head, cried: 'American'. He was beaten even more, I thought it would die. I do not have any words, even though I was beaten and I struggled, "he says.
Robertson says that four years later managed to flee, hiding in the mountains, and in a field he found a woman who was cured and which marry. Had "borrowed" the name and birthday of her late husband registered as French and Vietnamese Dan Tan Ngok.
Couple wins mate and children, but there is no evidence that Robertson had tried to establish contact with his wife and children in the U.S.. Despite the illogical statements, which lead to the conclusion that his kidnappers had caused severe brain injury, or severe case, he completely emotionally blunted, many feel that it is Robertson
Is there more to John Robertson Hartli in Vietnam?
The documentary film was shot at the initiative of Tom Fauns, Vietnam War veteran who wants to prove that the man, whom he had heard for the first time during a humanitarian mission in 2008, is actually his former comrade.
Tom Robertson went to see, but there was enough doubt, had been questioned in order to try to force meant that everything was invented, but he had persistently repeated that he is a man (Robertson), director of the film shows "Toronto Star".
Working in the film, revealed Jorgenson reports since 1982 regarding that Robertson had survived, which was forced to think about why he never contacted the family in order to ascertain that he is himself.
"Why Americans left there for all those years? Is there more to John Robertson Hartli in Vietnam? ", I asked Jorgensen interviews" gloub "the" Daily Mail ".
Then answers himself by saying that "a senior source said that there is one and it not because the Vietnamese did not want to release, but because the U.S. military does not want them to come home."
When I looked in his eyes, I had no doubt it was my brother
Robertson with members of the military unit in 1968
Fauns and Jorgensen have revealed that in 2012 Robertson's fingerprints were taken at the U.S. Embassy. Fauns-it was said that there was sufficient evidence to prove that it was Hartli John Robertson.
Following the film appear Robertson emotional meeting, the soldier whom he had trained in 1960, who says he knew immediately. In another appearance meets the 80-year-old Holy Jeanne Robertson, in her home in Canada - the only living sister of Sergeant Robertson.
Jeanne says there is no doubt that he is her brother
"When I took his hand in my hand and looked in his eyes, I had no doubt the same is my brother," she said.
However the truth will show the results of DNA analysis of brother and sister, but Jeanne says she already knows now that he is her brother.
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