John Caputo, is a dear old friend of Father Founded. He first contacted Father Founded in 2016, asking us for help in locating his lost ones. Like other veterans he did what he could to locate them but all in vain.

Here´s John story :

John served in Vietnam from 1969 to October 1970, he spend 17 months there. Most of the time in Long Binh, during his time in Vietnam he often went to Saigon, were he had briefings to attend. In Saigon he spent his evening on the famous street Tu Do, where bars and restaurants for the GIs could be found. In one bar he met "Mia", she was a Vietnamese women who was working in the bar, she probably used to work in the famous "Rose bar" before. They got into a relationship, and she got pregnant.

The Amerasian daughter may have ended up in an orphanage, ran by Canadians, and might have ended up in Canada.

John lost contact with Mia, after he went back to USA in 1970, he wrote her several times and to the orphanages too, but there was no response. He believes Mia might have been killed in the end of the war, but he never gave up on the search for his daughter.

John is hopeful that one day his DNA test will show a match to his daughter or her children.