US veteran to return notebook of Vietnamese martyr on March 5
(VOVWORLD) - US veteran Peter Mathews is scheduled to return a notebook belonging to a Vietnamese martyr, that he kept for 56 years, to his family in Ky Xuan commune, Ky An district, Ha Tinh province, on Sunday.
 VOV's correspondent in Washington interviews veteran Peter Mathews at his house in Bergenfield, New Jersey. |
The leaders of Ky An district said on Wednesday that when the family of martyr Cao Xuan Tuat receive the notebook, the authorities will discuss a plan to publish it. A representative of martyr Tuat’s family said they are happy and moved and will take good care of it.
Mathews, 77, who lives in New Jersey, posted on social media in late January that he was holding a 93-page notebook that belonged to a Vietnamese soldier during a battle in Mount 724 in Dak To in Kon Tum province in 1967.
He said he wanted to find the relatives of the soldier, whose name and address was written on the notebook. It has been verified that it belongs to martyr Cao Van Tuat, who was born in 1942, enlisted in the army in 1963, and died in 1967.
Have a look at some pages in the notebook of martyr Cao Xuan Tuat.