‘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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1 million cut off by monsoon floods in India

1 million cut off by monsoon floods in India
After river bursts its banks, north Indian state issues plea to relief agencies
Mon., Aug. 25, 2008
PATNA, India - Authorities struggled Monday to get aid to more than 1 million people stranded by floods in a north Indian state, with one local government leader describing the situation as a catastrophe.

Air force helicopters and troops were trying to get food to people in the stricken areas of Bihar state that were inundated by flood waters last week after torrential rains caused the Kosi river in neighboring Nepal to burst its banks.

The Bihar state government issued a plea to relief agencies to step in and help get food and shelter to the residents.

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