NC Vietnam Green Beret Finally Returns Home

Donald Monroe Shue

Sergeant First Class
MACV-SOG, 5TH SF GROUP, USARV

Shue was last seen alive in Laos in November 1969. He was with two other Special Forces soldiers and was wounded. At the time, Special Forces ran secret missions inside Laos and Cambodia, gathering intelligence on the North Vietnamese who were sneaking into South Vietnam through the Ho Chi Minh trail.

A few days after Shue went missing, two Green Berets visited her home. The family was devastated, but none more so than their father. He died two years later.

"I think he died of a broken heart," Jones said. "He just loved that boy."