Törni - Sotilaan tarina DVD Movie

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		DVD-movie - Törni Sotilaan tarina (Story of Larry Thorne) (DVD-Movie) Release Date: 2007-11-02

war-biography - premiére: 2007 - total Duration: 126 min
Subtitled: English - Finnish - Swedish
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Legendary Finnish war hero Lauri Törni (Larry Thorne) to get final resting
place in Arlington National Cemetery
Remains of victims of 1965 helicopter crash will be interred simultaneously
The last picture of Larry Thorne was taken three days before he disappeared.
The Finnish-American war hero is on the left in the picture with some
American and South Vietnamese brothers in arms.

Foreign - Tuesday 17.6.2003
By Asko Temmes

Lauri Törni (1919-1965) was a World War II hero and a recipient of the
Mannerheim Cross - the highest award for gallantry on the field - in his
native Finland. After the end of hostilities, the fiercely anti-Communist
Törni found life at home difficult, and he emigrated to the United States.
There he entered the U.S. military and became a decorated and much-revered
Vietnam War hero in Special Forces. Törni, by now better known to his
colleagues as Larry Thorne, disappeared after the helicopter he was in went
down close to the Laos border in 1965. At long last, his remains have been
formally identified, and he will be laid to rest in the Arlington National
Cemetery on June 26 of this year.Törni's remains will be buried in the same
coffin with those of three other victims of the same helicopter crash.

When the crash site was finally located four years ago, the U.S. military
made inquiries concerning Törni´s final resting place. In Finland, hopes
were raised for the national hero's possible burial in his home country.
Separating the remains of the crash victims, however, turned out to be an
impossible task, which led to a pragmatic decision to organise a joint
burial at Arlington. "A traditional American military officer's burial is to
be expected, with trumpets and salutes", says Törnii's nephew Juha Rajala,
who is also the Vice President of the Lauri Törni Tradition Guild in
Finland. The Tradition Guild will send representatives to the funeral, and
the Finnish Defence Forces will decide on their participation next week. It
is likely that the representation from the U.S. Army will be at the level of
a General. Törni still enjoys an awesome reputation amongst military men
even today, nearly 40 years after his demise.

The Arlington National Cemetery is in Virginia, across the Potomac River
from the nation's capital, Washington DC. Arlington Cemetery contains about
270,000 graves, most of them belonging to individuals who served in the U.S.
armed forces. Arlington's most famous grave, accompanied by an eternal
flame, is that of President John F. Kennedy. The day before the interment, a
memorial service will be arranged. Larry A. Thorne, the name by which Törni
is remembered in the United States, was a captain and a Green Beret in the
U.S. Special Forces. Special Forces will also organise a tribute to their
hero. AfterTörni status was changed from "missing in action" to
"presumably killed in action", a memorial service was already organised in
Helsinki back in 1967.

Excavation at the crash site in Vietnam was launched four years ago. The
helicopter crashed on a mountain-top in a severe thuderstorm. Three South
Vietnamese soldiers had accompanied Törnii on the ill-fated helicopter
flight, returning from a secret mission, probably in Laos. Two of the South
Vietnamese lieutenants were identified from DNA samples. The third soldier,
a machine-gunner, was recognised from his identification tag. Törni fate
was finally confirmed, not by a DNA sample, but from his dental records.
Törni had a dental crown on his tooth number 18.

Even before the medical confirmation, two pieces of evidence pointed
strongly to the final outcome: the serial number found on the helicopter's
rotor blade and the Swedish-made machine pistol that Törni had taken with
him, which was found nearby. The Lauri Törni Tradition Guild has planned a
trip to Vietnam, to the site of their hero's death. Thirty of the Finnish
Army infantrymen who accompanied Törni on numerous dangerous missions in
World War II are still alive, among them Finland's former President Mauno
Koivisto. Next year Lauri Törni would have celebrated his 85th birthday.

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