Extensive searches from land and sea were conducted over a wide area, without success. Although some Defense Department records indicate that Parker was aboard a boat when he was lost, the U.S. Army has confirmed that there was no boat involved in the loss of Parker.
David W. Parker is listed among the missing in Southeast Asia because no body was ever found to return home. His family can be as sure as it is possible to be without the confirmation of remains that he is dead. For many of the others who are missing, however, simple answers are not possible. Some were known to
be prisoners, but simply were not released at the end of the war. Others were alive and in radio contact with would-be rescuers. Still others simply disappeared without a trace.
As reports mount that many Americans are still alive in Southeast Asia, it becomes more and more evident that the Vietnam war had not ended for perhaps hundreds of American military and civilian personnel and their families. There
can be no honorable end to the war until these men are returned home.
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