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Lowerison vows to keep pressing the government for news of her brother. "I think they've known all along where he is," she says. "They've made grave, serious mistakes leaving so many men behind. Now they want to cover it up." But like some other MIA family members, she has become so distrustful of the Pentagon that she may never be satisfied by any official sifting of the evidence that does not lead to her own conclusions...
...clearly remembered burying the two airmen three days after the crash -- a delay caused by a dispute between two neighboring villages over which should get the credit for two dead enemies. But the newly discovered witness, Phe, distinctly recalled burying both men the day after the crash, in separate graves, even though the regular soldiers were ready to put them in a common grave. "I am a member of the Thai minority," he explained, "and for us it is not proper to bury two people in the same grave." He even recalled a large rock near one of the graves...
...engines. Hin, the hamlet party chief, tended to agree with Phe but said he had left before the burial to attend a meeting in Phu Yen. When he returned to the crash site several days later, the men had been buried. Pin said the graves lay deep in the jungle up the mountainside -- though he could not remember exactly where. According to Phe, however, the site was only 15 ft. away. He quickly located one of the spots, and our expectations soared -- only to plummet when it became obvious that someone had already dug up the grave...
...often the case in these investigations, another dead end. On the way back down the mountain, says Phe, his sons threw the evidence away because "they didn't want some dead man's things." Using a pick, we too sifted through the dirt that had come from the alleged grave, but found nothing...
...Stone's movie different from any other imaginative treatment of history? Is it because the assassination of John Kennedy was so traumatic, the baby boomers' End of Childhood? Or that Americans have enshrined it as official tragedy, a title that confers immunity from profane revisionists who would reopen the grave? Are artists and moviemakers by such logic enjoined from stories about the Holocaust? The Holocaust, of course, is known from the outset to be a satanic plot. For some reason -- a native individualism, maybe -- many Americans resist dark theories about J.F.K.'s death, and think those retailing them are peddling...