Not everyone who served in the military is acknowledged or remembered. For the families of those who paid the ultimate price, it can be especially painful. Now, some are trying to get a group of soldiers acknowledged - 60 years after they died en route to a mission in Vietnam.
COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine — Sometimes, a secret can live on, well past the lifetimes of those who kept them.To bring a secret to life, sometimes you have to go back: in this case, six decades back in time.“I am the niece of Special Fourth Donald A. Sargent, who was aboard the Flying Tiger Line Flight 739,” she said.
Investigators eventually heard from an oil tanker crew that had been at sea in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean, where the plane likely would have been when it disappeared. They reported seeing an “intensely luminous” explosion in the sky.Investigators concluded it was “impossible to determine whether a mechanical/structural failure, or sabotage, occurred in flight.”
“Why? Because he went over there, or headed over there, with the same means as the other boys on that wall fought and died,” Sargent said. Army Veteran Don Sargent, who is named after his uncle, visited the Vietnam Wall in Washington and brought a letter he wrote to his uncle. “I said, you know, ‘give me a little time and we'll make that happen,’” Worcester recalled. “We'll actually have a monument with your loved ones' names on it.”
“The Vietnam Wall is tremendous, obviously, and much, much larger. It's for all the people that gave their lives in Vietnam – and, frankly, I really believe these people deserve to be on that Wall,” Worcester said. “And someday they might, you know. But, right now, this is the only place that they're memorialized.”Exactly 60 years to the day after their loss, families of those on Flight 739 honored their loved ones at the only memorial in the world that remembers their lives and deaths.
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