"Unclaimed," a new documentary premiering at Toronto's Hot Docs film festival on Tuesday night, tells the story of Special Forces Green Beret Master Sgt. John Hartley Robertson, who was shot down over Laos in 1968 and was long presumed dead.

The documentary actually follows fellow Vietnam vet Tom Faunce, who heard about Robertson's whereabouts while on a humanitarian mission and wants to find him. Faunce does track down someone claiming to be Robertson in a remote village in south-central Vietnam. The man, according to the Toronto Star, was a "wiry 76-year-old" who "trembles with frustration or pounds his forehead when he is unable to remember his birthday or his American children’s names. He is only able to speak Vietnamese."

According to the documentary, directed by Edmonton filmmaker Michael Jorgensen, Robertson was captured by North Vietnam forces and tortured, but eventually escaped. Rather than return to his wife and children in the U.S., he stayed in Vietnam and married another woman, assuming the name of her deceased husband, Dang Tan Ngoc. An article from the Toronto Star says that in the years since, he has apparently forgotten how to speak English.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/sold...-194828732.html

There have been whispers over the years that Robertson was still alvie. Some guys even tried to mount a rescue mssion in the late 70's and couldn't get funding.

That said it appears the guy in the article may be a scammer.

He's a fake.

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He's a fake.

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He's a fake.

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That's too bad ...it was a nice story !!

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The DUmmies were really eating this one up.

I tend to agree the old guy is not the missing green beret. His face doesn't match, and they should in terms of nose shape, distance between eyes, and general shape of chin.