Michigan woman meets Viet Cong soldier involved in husband’s death

Vietnam widow reflects on her past

American Military News "When Hattie and Jim Ford went to Vietnam in January, they hoped to learn more about the death of her first husband.
"Lt. Deane Taylor Jr. was fatally shot by the Viet Cong after his Army helicopter crashed during the Vietnam War in 1969.
"What the Fords never expected was to be standing face to face with one of the soldiers who had attacked Taylor.
"The Vietnamese soldier, found after a circuitous search, brought them to the spot where the attack had occurred exactly 50 years earlier.
"It was as if the Fords had stepped into a time machine and were transported to one of the ugliest chapters in American history.
"Surreal, said Hattie, 73, a retired math teacher from Kalamazoo.
"Unfathomable, said husband Jim, 73, a retired lawyer.
“ 'It was a million to one shot,” he said. “We would find this VC soldier, still alive, still in the same hamlet and willing to talk.”
"The former soldier didn’t offer an apology, but the Fords weren’t looking for one." . . .
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