during the war and afterwards. he wrote to a person named, betty, assuming his wife, all the dead and wounded u.s. troops he had to tend to and help. the vietnamese defense minister used panetta s visit as a chance to announce the regime would now allow the u.s. military access to three new sites previously unavailable to them. these sites are thought to contain the remains of american troops missing since the war. the pentagon has a team that has been here searching since 1973. there are still 1284 american servicemen missing in vietnam. the acid dick nature of the oil here caused quickening disintegration of the remains. aging family members see there is a real race against time to find the missing. the military officials told leon panetta today that they only had five or six years left to find the remains of the missing before the soil would cause them all to disintegrate. back to you, jon.