Good Morning, Vietnam!
You may remember the name Adrian Cronauer from the film “Good Morning, Vietnam,” in which Robin Williams portrayed the nonconformist Vietnam-era Armed Forces Radio deejay.
On Friday, however, the real Cronauer discussed his current vocation — working with the Department of Defense’s POW/MIA office in order to ensure that all missing American servicemembers are accounted for.
Now rotund and bearded, but still possessed of his mellifluous radio voice, Cronauer told the American Veterans Center that the United States is “at least a decade ahead of any other country” in tracking down our MIAs, dead or alive.
He said thanks to the military’s new DNA database, “I don’t think we’re ever going to have another unknown soldier.”
Since leaving the service, Cronauer became a lawyer and has been active in Republican politics,serving as a co-chairman of Veterans for Bush and Veterans for Dole. But the next thing on his agenda: a trip to Kuwait to discuss the case of a pilot shot down in 1991.
