Navy SEALs Give Back to Vietnam Combat Interpreter

and there are thousands of bikers who have taken over downtown Washington DC as they ride here every year to remember the captured and missing in Vietnam and this morning ABC's Bob Woodruff shares a remarkable story of honor and commitment from that war it was a dangerous war in Vietnam a foreign land where American soldiers badly needed translators from 1967 to 1971 Ying Wang Min was the combat interpreter for every Seal Team in the meong Delta those SEAL Teams were the most effective combat SEAL Teams in Vietnam primarily because of Ming's influence when the US pulled out of Vietnam Min disappeared no word of him for over 40 years assumed dead until Patrol boat officer John Donovan found him in 2006 he looks at me and this big smile breaks out that was the thing that identified him the most is he always had this big grin on his face this week in Vietnam I got the chance to hear his remarkable story this is beautiful out here men spent almost 2 and A2 years in a prison camp when I get out the prisoner Camp you know I am I have no food no everything you know how the seals who fought by his side built him a new house my bedroom my met they are also giving him $300 a month for life well what would your life be like if the seals did not find you I will be dead for a long time in 2013 they flew him to Florida to reunite with his platoon seen here in the documentary a bond unbroken the why of men hey you're getting those you're a hell of a man I tell you God bless you before the seals generosity he was too poor to send his children to college now his granddaughter is a freshman at the hoim Min City University of Science her dream she told me is to become a pharmacist interpreters like men are often the unsung heroes of War but in men's case the seals will always remember his contribution to our friendship for this week I'm Bob woodriff in Meo Vietnam

Channel: ABC News

Views: 680,104

Keywords: This, Week, George, Stephanopoulos, Jonathan, Karl, Vietnam, Memorial, Day, Veterans, Navy, SEALs, Nguyen, Hoang, Minh

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Length: 2min 29sec (149 seconds)

Published: Mon May 30 2016