Trying to find a long-lost friend

[brentfordfan]

I'm trying to trace a friend who I met in Chicago in the mid-1980s.  He was an ex-Marine and he seems to have dropped completely off the radar.  I have posted messages on just about every US military 'find your friend' bulletin board I can find and looked in the Chicago White Pages for a phone number (none) and emailed a radio station to see if they could display an email on their site (sorry, they can't) and written to an acquaintance of his in Chicago (no reply so far) and asked the local branch of the Vietnam Veterans Association (very helpful but never heard of him).  I have managed to make contact with an ex-service friend of his who is also looking for him but so far no luck.  Short of hiring a private detective, does anyone have any ideas where else I can look?  I don't even know if he is still in Chicago which makes it even more needle-in-a-haystack.  Suggestions welcome.

[kaktus]

This is probably a really un-useful suggestion, but is there a national Vietnam Veterans Assocition? Do you know if he had any siblings? Maybe they would be easier to find.

I have no clue how the US systems would work, I suspect it's quite different from the Danish ;0) So I have no idea if you can go some sort of "official" way, but maybe you can look in to it. I mean maybe he recieves a pension from the army, and if he did, would the military give you any infomation, Social security number,  etc.

 

Hope you find him!

[rod]

Found this site hope it helps it says something about voter�s record?

http://www.lookupamerica.com/help.php

good luck

[Ouisch]

Try this and see if it's any help:

http://www.zabasearch.com/

[brentfordfan]

Thank you very much, everyone.  Kaktus, that was one of my first ports of call but there is no way the Marine Corps would tell me that info (quite rightly). I contacted the local branch of the VVA quite some time ago and they kindly offered to ask around for me but my friend wasn't a member all those years ago and my guess is, he's not much of a 'joiner'.

Rod and Ouisch - thanks, those look like very helpful sites, even if I have to make scattergun phone calls to everyone with his name.  The most frustrating this is that there is a website with his family name that mentions they are looking for him in the little snippet of info I get when I Google it - but the damn website seems to be defunct or the server is permanently down!!

Thanks again - I'll keep on plodding.