BREINER, STEPHEN EUGENE

Name: Stephen Eugene Breiner
Rank/Branch: E2/USMC
Unit: 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division
Date of Birth: 5 July 1947
Home City of Record: Decatur, IN (born Fort Wayne, IN)
Date of Loss: 24 September 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates:
Status (in 1973): Died of Accidental Injury/Body not Recovered
Category: 5
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Refno: 1287
Other Personnel in Incident: none

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project and the P.O.W. NETWORK 2 April
1992 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government
agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources,
interviews.

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS: While attempting to cross the Bon River in the vicinity of
Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam, Private First Class Stephen
Breiner was caught in the current and drowned.

In recent years, the numbers of remains returned from Vietnam and
excavated in Laos has increased dramatically. Government strategists
happily point to this as "progress" on the POW/MIA issue, although most of
these remains are still unidentified. Indeed, many families, having had
independent studies of the remains to assure accurate identification, now
have answers to long-awaited concerns about their loved ones. However,
when remains are positively identified, the U.S. Government closes the
books and the search for that missing man ends. Can we afford to close the
books on an American who may be alive waiting for his country to bring him
home?

How many will serve in the next war knowing they may be abandoned?

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