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TIL the man whose wife and five Sunday school students were killed during WWII by a Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon then married the older sister of two of the Sunday schoolers, went to South Vietnam for missionary work with his new family, was kidnapped by the Viet Cong, and remains missing.

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