11/02/2026
from: The Sons and Daughters In Touch:
This week's news of the bi-lateral exchange of artifacts and information between US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister General Phan Van Giang is welcome news to the Sons and Daughters In Touch (SDIT) community.
As a result of this humanitarian exchange, artifacts of 12 American MIAs were received from the Vietnamese government providing potential clues to the fates of those service members.
SDIT hopes these artifacts help provide answers to the decades-long questions about the fates and whereabouts of America's missing service members from the Vietnam War. We hold these families in our hearts and will continue to walk alongside them on their quest for answers.
We thank and congratulate Secretary Hegseth, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Mission POW MIA and Healing Through History for coordinating this bilateral exchange.
We also acknowledge the many decades of efforts by Vietnam veterans, other POW/MIA organizations and generations of MIA families that led to this exchange.
We urge any Vietnam Veterans who may have war-related items concerning Vietnamese soldiers or information on the location of Vietnamese war dead to please share them with the
Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency at DPAA.gov for evaluation.
Hegseth met with his Vietnamese counterpart, Phan Văn Giang, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting-Plus in the Philippines.
