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Men and women sift dirt looking for Vietnam War-era remains.

POW/MIA Recovery Mission

A Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery team sifts through dirt during a recovery mission in Vietnam’s Lang Son province, Oct. 29, 2019. For more than two decades, the United States has conducted joint field activities with the governments of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to recover the remains of missing Americans.

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