{"id":38079,"date":"2024-11-06T20:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/midstate-man-gets-closure-on-his-late-cousins-cause-of-death-during-vietnam-war\/06\/11\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:01:50","slug":"midstate-man-gets-closure-on-his-late-cousins-cause-of-death-during-vietnam-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/midstate-man-gets-closure-on-his-late-cousins-cause-of-death-during-vietnam-war\/06\/11\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Midstate man gets closure on his late cousin\u2019s cause of death during Vietnam War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(WHTM) \u2014 A Midstate man who always wondered what happened to his cousin shot down over Vietnam now has some closure.<\/p>\n<p>David Christian, a skyhawk pilot during the Vietnam War, was shot down near the Vietnamese Coast in 1965 and was originally considered killed in action. His younger Midstate cousin, Larry Christian, thought David survived being shot down.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/reporter-wrote-midstate-man-shot-025733220.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018Reporter\u2019 who wrote about Midstate man\u2019s shot-down cousin turned out to be KGB agent;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> \u2018Reporter\u2019 who wrote about Midstate man\u2019s shot-down cousin turned out to be KGB agent <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christian went on a quest for documents proving what really happened. Last week, the Navy denied his request for certain witness statements. However, Christian claims he has enough information from previous documents to conclude his cousin did survive being shot down \u2014 but broke his leg and was killed by Vietnamese troops that same day.<\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/midstate-man-gets-closure-cousin-230300028.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WHTM) &mdash; A Midstate man who always wondered what happened to his cousin shot down over Vietnam now has some closure. David<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/midstate-man-gets-closure-on-his-late-cousins-cause-of-death-during-vietnam-war\/06\/11\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}