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Name: John Curtis Stringer II Rank/Branch: O2/US Army Unit: Company B, 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division Date of Birth: 12 January 1946 (Ashland KY) Home City of Record: Hazard KY Date of Loss: 30 November 1970 Country of Loss: South Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 164118N 1065923E (YD121460) Status (in 1973): Missing in Action Category: 4 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground Refno: 1680

Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.

Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS: 1Lt. John C. Stringer II was a platoon leader in B Company, 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry. His unit was operating about 15 miles east northeast of Khe Sanh in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam.

On November 30, 1970, as platoon leader, Stringer was preparing to conduct a hasty stream crossing when he lost his grip and fell into the stream. He was swept downstream and at one point, came close to the northern bank and momentarily held on to a branch. The branch broke as rescuers neared his position, and he continued on downstream. Searches on both banks of the stream were made by elements of the company without results.

Although searches were continued for nearly 3 weeks, no sign of 1Lt. Stringer was ever found. Stringer's is one of the unfortunate accidental deaths that occur wherever people are. The fact that he died an accidental death in the midst of war is tragically ironic. He is listed among the missing with honor, because his body was never found to be returned to the country he served.

Others who are missing do not have such clear cut cases. Some were known captives; some were photographed as they were led by their guards. Some were in radio contact with search teams, while others simply disappeared.

Since the war ended, over 250,000 interviews have been conducted with those who claim to know about Americans still alive in Southeast Asia, and several million documents have been studied. U.S. Government experts cannot seem to agree whether Americans are there alive or not. Distractors say it would be far too politically difficult to bring the men they believe to be alive home, and the U.S. is content to negotiate for remains.

Over 1000 eye-witness reports of living American prisoners were received by 1989. Most of them are still classified. If, as the U.S. seems to believe, the men are all dead, why the secrecy after so many years? If the men are alive, why are they not home?

OPERATION JUST CAUSE

1. Operation Just Cause is a non funded assembly of persons from around the world, united in their desire to achieve the fullest possible accounting of Americans missing and unaccounted during the Vietnam war and all wars.

2. The object of Operation Just Cause is for individuals to adopt an unaccounted for American and work within the law to obtain that accounting from the governments of the United States, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and the former USSR.

3. In order to achieve that accounting, Operation Just Cause members communicate with elected officials in the US and abroad, urging that they use their influence to insure:

Immediate and thorough investigation of all reports of Live Sightings of American Prisoners in SE Asia and the Liberation of any surviving POWs still in captivity;

Recovery, positive identification, and return to American soil of the remains of personnel classified as Missing In Action. When remains are recovered, full disclosure of where they were recovered and when; and

4. Members of Operation Just Cause do not solicit contributions and each member funds her/his own efforts to promote awareness of the POW/MIA issue.

To that end, Operation Just Cause has developed Net Operations. This is comprised of an on-line adoption program, a webring, an on-line newsletter, and a site development program to assist like-minded people in 'building' individual sites around the world to facilitate these goals.

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