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Emotions? >> mixed emotions, could not believe that they were out there still, or the seriousness of where he was. it almost put you on the battlefield with him. >> alisyn: and we have an example, actually of one of the letters, you're right. he really wrote in very vivid terms. here is one. we took lots of casualties, it's been trying days for me and my men. we dragged more bodies of dead and wounded than i could ever want to forget. what did you think, martha when you read those words? >> well, i said it kind of put you there in the middle with him and hard to grasp, but it was very emotiona...

>> 23 years after an army sergeant was killed in vietnam. letters he wrote to loved ones back home are finally making it into the hands of his family. the letters received by enemy troops and had been used for war time propaganda, they remained in vietnam for decades before being discovered and used as a swap with the u.s. getting the sergeant's letters in exchange for vietnam getting one of their soldiers' diaries. >> sergeant flaherty's sister-in-law is joining us this morning. >> thank you, nice to see you. >> dave: it's a complicated story. you're the closest familiar youly member still al...