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Filmmaker says John Robertson, now 76, can no longer speak English, remember his birthday or the names of his American children.A NEW DO ENTARY called" Unclaimed" claims to introduce the world to former Army Sergeant John Robertson, lost over Vietnam in 1968 and left behind for over four decades.
The Toronto Star reports Edmonton filmmaker Michael Jorgenson found Robertson, 76, living in a rural Vietnam village stooped with age, unable to speak English, remember his birthday, or names of the children he left behind in the U.S.
It’s a story difficult to understand considering the US military places such a priority on bringing every service member home, whenever possible.
Jorgenson told the Toronto Star that he was also skeptical when Vietnam vet Tom Faunce came to him and explained a man he’d found in Vietnam was a former “Army brother” listed as killed in action and forgotten. He says he became convinced only after going to Vietnam and meeting Robertson himself.
What he found was revealed to filmgoers in an invitation only screening of “Unclaimed” at a Toronto theatre earlier this month.
From The Toronto Star:
There is physical proof of Robertson’s birthplace, collected in dramatic fashion onscreen; a tearful meeting in Vietnam with a soldier who was trained by Robertson in 1960 and said he knew him on sight; and a heart-wrenching reunion with his only surviving sister — 80-year-old Jean Robertson-Holly — in Edmonton in December 2012 that left the audience at the Toronto screening wiping away tears.
Jorgenson encountered so much resistance from the US military making his film that he says he’s convinced one “high-placed government source” was telling the truth when he said, “It’s not that the Vietnamese won’t let him (Robertson) go; it’s that our government doesn’t want him.”
Wringing out the details and talking to Robertson’s American family seems to have been a gut-wrenching affair. The children whose names he couldn’t recall declined DNA testing at the last minute with no explanation.
None of that mattered to Roberston who says he fulfilled his wish of coming to America and seeing his kids one more time before he dies.
Robertson’s now back in Vietnam, with no desire to leave and Unclaimed opens in the USA on 12 May, at the G.I. Film Festival in Washington, DC.
- Robert Johnson
http://www.thejournal.ie/missing-vie...85986-Apr2013/
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You don't get off the boat. Robertson got off the boat.
so ya'll think he went awol or his troop abandoned him?
and how do you forget your native tongue? he was in his 20's when he went missing.
The trailer intimates he was shot down during some rescue mission. I wonder if the sister took the DNA test
Hey, soldier. Do you know who's in command here?
oh okay
Probably smacked out and went native.
probably got captured by Charlie and got sent to some hardcore re-education camp for a while.
Probably got boom boomed big time and she loved GI long time.
he got hooked on all that free vietcong pussy...it's enough to make any man stay....they did him l-o-n-g time...just after ,after , after ...
Probably one of the ones that didn't cough...
today SVN remember the fall of saigon, while the commies celebrate victory with a national holiday...fck them commies
protagonist of the story is named john robertson while the writer named robert johnson, is it coincidence?
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hahaha when they said he forgot how to speak english i knew something was up.
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