‘Ghost Closet’ Vietnam Veteran Shares Story of Little Girl Lost in Duc Pho

One lost little girl haunts Vietnam veteran still today
Monroe News
By Tom Treece
September 22, 2014

“I go to sleep and dream about ’Nam, and I see her face, and then … I see her hand slipping out of mine.”

As he shared his heartbreak with me, my heart went out to him. “After reading your ‘Ghost Closet’ book, I realized we had served in the same area, and knowing you have connections there, I’m hoping you can check to see if she might have survived.”

Late August, 1970, was the calendar’s breeding grounds for Southeast Asia’s monsoon season that would sweep in off the South China Sea and hang around for the next three months. The place he described, I remembered all too well.

LZ Bronco — the home firebase of my 11th Infantry unit — sat just outside the gates to the Village of Duc Pho in what was then South Vietnam. More importantly, it also stood just off the coast of that now-raging sea. “She’d probably be in her 50s … if she survived,” he continued. “ What a burden I could lose if I KNEW she had made it.”
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