KARUNA SHINSHO, ASIA TONIGHT: Memorial services have been held for the members of a joint U.S.-Vietnamese team that died in a helicopter crash in central Vietnam last week. The team was looking for remains of U.S. servicemen missing in action from the war in Indochina. And as Linet Bidrossian (ph) reports, the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam honored the search team members from both countries.</s>LINET BIDROSSIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In an emotional ceremony on a Hanoi tarmac, United States servicemen said good-bye to friends killed in a helicopter crash last week in the central highlands. An honor guard solemnly bore flag-draped caskets onto an Air Force plane. The seven servicemen died on this hillside. An entire joint U.S.- Vietnamese team searching for remains of Americans missing from the U.S.-Vietnam war died in the crash. The cause is under investigation. The Vietnamese who died were remembered in a memorial service which the U.S. ambassador attended. He called the members of the team heroes.</s>PETE PETERSON, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM: America and Vietnam jointly have suffered a profound loss. All of these men are heroes. They gave their lives for something they really believed in and our nations believe in jointly as well. We have gone back with their help to determine fate, and in so doing, they determined their own.</s>BIDROSSIAN: The seven Americans will return home. Their mission, similar homecoming flights for their countrymen who died three decades ago, will remain. Linet Bidrossian, CNN.
Members Of Joint U.S.-Vietnamese MIA Search Team Honored