Robertson, you say?
Posted on 04/30/2013 2:41:40 PM PDT by AtlasStalled
"Unclaimed," a new documentary premiering at Toronto's Hot Docs film festival on Tuesday night, tells the story of Special Forces Green Beret Master Sgt. John Hartley Robertson, who was shot down over Laos in 1968 and was long presumed dead.
The documentary actually follows fellow Vietnam vet Tom Faunce, who heard about Robertson's whereabouts while on a humanitarian mission and wants to find him. Faunce does track down someone claiming to be Robertson in a remote village in south-central Vietnam.
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Whether or not the man is indeed Robertson remains unproved. But, as the Toronto Star puts it, the film "makes a compelling case."
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Hmmmm, maybe Master Sgt. John Robertson found a hot babe and decided to stay.
For later
Oh, come on! Not possible. Is it?
McCain is going to be angry. Can he have him executed?
“Hmmmm, maybe Master Sgt. John Robertson found a hot babe and decided to stay.”
Me love you long time?
I knew a girl who lost most of her French vocabulary after her family moved to Toronto.
The fact they didn’t do DNA testing makes me suspicious.
Oh, come on! Not possible. Is it?
I spoke pidgin Japanese as a kid, but forgot nearly all of it after we moved back stateside in the late sixties. Then again, it wasn't my native tongue.
I can see losing ones ability to fluently speak their native tongue after forty years of disuse, but forgetting it altogether? Dunno about that.
I thought all soldiers were fingerprinted. That’s what they indicate on the old cop shows.
Liberals are going to be mad. They missed spitting on one.
Kerry mysteriously vanished from Vietnam and he is still alive.
Correct. I was fingerprinted in 1967 when I enlisted. I don't know about the years before that, but by '67 we were all fingerprinted.
num 10, clean
I knew a fellow who went back to Quebec to visit his family.
They were listening to a hockey game, and he says,
“That Rondell guy is all over the ice today.”
His family was not happy with him.
***Note for those who don’t speak French. Rondell means “Puck”.
Actually it is...it’s hard to believe I know.
One reason I think that is because there are many in Vietnam who speak English and he'd have always been able to communicate with some in his own language.
I have seen that happen and it does not take long. Back in the 1980s there was this guy who was like 19 or 20 years old who had a Cambodian girlfriend and practically lived with her family as he came from a not so good family. This American spoke English with a Cambodian accent!
Oh, come on! Not possible. Is it?
When I was a kid in the 50s/60s, the only language I spoke was German. By the time I got out of high school, I could still understand some German and speak very little.
Robertson, you say?
I could not fine the name John Hartley Robinson on the Vietnam wall search engine.
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