Acting New Jersey Gov. Kim Guadagno has ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown at half-staff to honor an Army soldier from Palisades Park who went missing in action in Vietnam in 1969.

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The flags will be lowered Thursday in tribute to Army Sgt. 1st Class Gunther Wald, whose remains were recently identified. Wald was part of a Special Forces reconnaissance patrol operating near the Vietnam-Laos border in 1969.

The Pentagon says Wald and two other Americans were wounded during an ambush. There were no signs of them when a search-and-rescue team, hampered by the enemy and weather, reached the site eight days later.

A Vietnamese citizen led investigators to human remains he had discovered in 2007. They were excavated in 2010.

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