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Still Missing - Maine's MIAs - Stories of Courage

2003 marks thirty years since the beginning of the end in Vietnam. But for Maine’s MIA families, there is no end.

The following 13 Maine MIAs from the Vietnam War are still missing and unaccounted for. They are not names on a list. The spirits of these Mainers, and their stories, are with us still. If they were to come home this Christmas, where would they go? What would they say? What has it been like for the families growing up, knowing that door could open any minute...

Malcolm Arthur Avore U.S. Navy Hallowell, Maine	Blenn Colby Dyer USMC Standish, Maine	Joseph Tony Musetti, Jr. U.S. Navy Hall Quarry, Maine
John H.R. Brooks U.S. Army Bryant Pond, Maine	Paul Everett Getchell USAF Portland, Maine	Williams Stephen Sanders USAF Winthrop, Maine
Carl Russell Churchill USAF Bethel, Maine	Walter Louis Hall U.S. Army Old Town, Maine	Neil Brooks Taylor U.S. Navy Rangeley, Maine
Richard Clair Dority U.S. Army Dover/ Foxcroft, Maine	Terrence Higgins Hanley U.S. Navy Gardiner, Maine	Peter George Vlahakos USMC Auburn, Maine
	John Norman Huntley U.S. Army Portland, Maine

MIA - Remains Recovered

Edward Joseph Darcy
USAF
Portland, Maine

We are most grateful to the POW Network, who opened their database to us for these stories. Sources include raw data from U.S. Government agencies, correspondence with POW/MIA families, updates and insight from the POW Network, and interviews by Alison Bulman, Sarah Hammond, and Julian Marks. Background images from National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum (NVVAM) and by Robert Tracy

Colin Sargent, Editor & Publisher
editor@portlandmonthly.com
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