On August 18, 1966, with four months of his tour left, Edward served as the radio man for a reconnaissance patrol consisting of four men which went out in the Da Nang area. Returning to Da Nang, the patrol was ambushed. Three men survived, and reported that Edward Rykoskey did not. Search parties were sent out to find Rykoskey's body, but after three or four days, they stopped looking.
Edward was originally classified Killed In Action, status changed to Missing In Action, and later back to Killed in Action.
Whether Rykoskey lived or died that day in August 1966 will not be known for certain until there is proof positive of his death or survival. The U.S. and the Vietnamese have yet to determine the formula which would successfully resolve the questions that linger about the nearly 2500 Americans who did not return from the war in Vietnam.
Tragically, there have been over 10,000 reports received concerning Americans still alive in Southeast Asia, many in captivity. While the rest of America tries to forget the war in Vietnam, these men, and their friends and families cannot. We must bring them home. They are America's sons.
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