Remnants

Although my guess is that CNN is attempting to stick the spectre of Vietnam in our heads by publishing this, it's actually a touching story.

WHEATON, Illinois (AP) -- V.R. Roskam didn't know anything about the men whose names were stamped on the small, thin pieces of metal. He didn't know one belonged to a young Marine killed by a land mine. Or that one flew off a teenage soldier's neck when he jumped from a helicopter into a firefight.

But Roskam fought in Korea, and the way he saw it, 37 dog tags didn't belong in a wicker basket in some Ho Chi Minh City souvenir stand -- they belonged in the hands of men who lost them fighting the Vietnam War.

"It's a matter of honor," said Roskam, 75. "They fell into our hands and they need to be returned to the right people."

Good to go.