The Vietnam Unknown Serviceman was interred at Arlington National Cemetery on May 28, 1984. President Ronald Reagan delivered the eulogy in the Memorial Ampitheater before the final burial on the plaza.

• Information Paper: Department of the Army on an Unknown Serviceman from Vietnam: 3/21/77 • Program from the Interment of the Vietnam Unknown Soldier: 5/28/84 • U.S. Army Illustrated Report on the Burial of the Vietnam Unknown Serviceman

• Material on LT Michael Blassie from the National Archives • LT Michael Blassie Official Military Personnel File • Request for Information conerning LT Michael Blassie • Aircraft Mishap Report: 10/31/72 • Additional files at the Library of Congress relating to LT Michael Blassie

LT MICHAEL BLASSIE, USAF

In 1998, the Vietnam Unknown Serviceman was disinterred and the remains were subjected to new DNA testing. On June 30, the Department of Defense announced that they had identified the reamains as those of LT Michael Blassie, an Air Force pilot who was shot down on May 11, 1972. The Vietnam crypt on the plaza at the Tomb of the Unknown today remains empty.

 View the complete speech and interment ceremony here.

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