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Re: Bob Dumas' Search for Truth

From: POW-MIA InterNetwork

Date: December 03, 2003

"Bob Dumas unrelenting in his search
Brother Roger missing 50 years

EDITORIAL

The story of Bob Dumas is one of pursuit. For the past 50 years, Bob Dumas
of Canterbury has been trying to find his brother Roger. It's a story of red
tape, closed doors and dead ends.

Still, Bob Dumas continues a quest he began shortly before his mother died:
Yes, he promised, he would find Roger, his youngest brother, the youngest of
her four sons.

While the four Dumas boys served in the Korean War, only three returned. Bob
believes Roger was taken prisoner and held in North Korea ever since.

He's had some leads, promising at first but which eventually have grown
cold.

He has a 1953 Associated Press photo of prisoners of war about to be freed
from North Korean prisoner-of-war camp. He believes one of the men to be
Roger.

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While Bob remains steadfast in his belief Roger still is being held, U.S.
authorities are not as optimistic and have done next to nothing to learn --
one way or another -- Roger's fate.

For the issue to fade away as Korean War veterans die off would surely be a
lot less uncomfortable than learning 50 years after the fact that, yes,
Americans had been held all that time by North Korea.

So Bob Dumas carries on his pursuit of the truth about Roger, honoring the
promise made 50 years ago.

It's a daunting, thankless task, one some would say is never ending.

Bob Dumas will not be deterred.

©2003 Norwich Bulletin"