
“The arm was handed back to ex-soldier Nguyen Quang Hung, who now plans to use it to claim a war veteran’s pension. ‘After some research, it turns out that you can take bones in your suitcase,’ said US doctor Sam Axelrad, adding that he packed the arm into his luggage — not his carry-on — ‘and it went all the way through with no problems.’ ‘You can’t send a body without authorisation, but bones, yes,’ he added. Some three million Vietnamese civilians and soldiers died during the war, which also claimed the lives of almost 60,000 American soldiers before ending in 1975 with Vietnam’s reunification.”
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