{"id":30469,"date":"2012-06-21T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30469"},"modified":"2012-06-21T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:23:27","slug":"no-man-left-behind-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30469","title":{"rendered":"No man left behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine_7002 sends us a link in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20120621\/METRO\/206210406\/1409\/metro\/After-60-years-Detroit-Army-veteran-finally-laid-rest\">Detroit News<\/a> to the story of a soldier, CPL Robert Wax, who was returned to his Detroit family 60 years after he was killed in Korea after his first few weeks back in 1950;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several weeks after the battle, the Army recovered some soldiers&#8217; remains from the 555th Field Artillery Battalion to which Wax belonged, but it wasn&#8217;t able then to identify all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Wax was listed at first as missing in action, and later presumed dead.<\/p>\n<p>His remains, tagged Unknown X-88, were buried in a cemetery in South Korea, then moved in 1951 to Japan, amid the turmoil in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Still unidentified, Wax&#8217;s remains were shipped four years later to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, where by a strange coincidence, his father, Capt. John (Jack) Wax, was buried.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should read the rest of the article. One of the things we&#8217;ve been good at is doing our best to bring folks back in recent years. Too late for the guys left in Vietnam who&#8217;ve become a political football, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine_7002 sends us a link in the Detroit News to the story of a soldier, CPL &hellip; <a title=\"No man left behind\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30469\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No man left behind<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}